| Benjamin Greenleaf - Algebra - 1852 - 348 pages
...nothing teaches a man to reason so well as Mathematics, which should be taught to all those who have time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures." This may well be said of Algebra. In the study of Algebra, and in fact of every branch of mathematics,... | |
| Sarah Porter - Arithmetic - 1852 - 286 pages
...their mental faculties, the time thus employed in the education of youth would be well bestowed, " not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures."* To assist in rescuing arithmetic from the degraded rank it at present occupies among intellectual pursuits... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Algebra - 1853 - 370 pages
...Nothing teaches a man to reason so well as Mathematics, which should be taught to all those who have time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable crea"fcllTGS " BENJAMIN GREENLEAF. BUAWOIUJ, January 23, 1852. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE STEREOTYPE EDITION.... | |
| Insurance - 1853 - 394 pages
...same time to exercise the mental faculties of students ; and, as she says in the words of Locke, " not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures." To this end the author has avoided giving any rule without first having shown upon what principles... | |
| John Locke - Philosophy - 1854 - 560 pages
...train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be tauglft all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to...are born to it if we please, yet we may truly say, nature gives us but the seeds of it; we are born to be, if we please, rational creatures, but it is... | |
| John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...mathematics, which, therefore, I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity ; not БО much to make them mathematicians, as to make them...are born to it, if we please , yet we may truly say, nature gives us but the seeds of it : we are born to be, if we please, rational creatures ; but it... | |
| Thomas Fisher - Mathematics - 1854 - 156 pages
...train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to...mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures." [Locke, on the Conduct of the Human Understanding, Introduction, Sec. 6. " It is to bo observed that... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...Nothing does this better than Mathematics ; which, therefore, I think should be taught all those who have time and opportunity; not so much to make them Mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures.—John Locke. 186. He that gives a portion of his time and talent (o the investigation of... | |
| Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...Nothing does this better than Mathematics; which, therefore, I think should be taught all those who have time and opportunity; not so much to make them Mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures.—John Locke. 186. to the investigation of Mathematical truth, will come to all other questions... | |
| James W. Kavanagh - Arithmetic - 1857 - 298 pages
...promotion of mental culture. Hence Locke says — " Mathematics should be taught all those who have time and opportunity ; not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures."! And while the pure mathematics thus aid in the forma* Study of Mathematics, by De Morgan. t Conduct... | |
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