 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1866 - 516 pages
...Nothing does this better than mathematics ; which therefore, I think, should be tdught by all who have time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures." The argument which the great metaphysician draws in favor of mathematics may be applied to every other... | |
 | 1872 - 554 pages
...train. Nothing does this better than mathematics which, therefore, I think should be taught all who have time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures." This last line is terse and vigorous : — we doubt that even the warmest panegyrist of the exact sciences... | |
 | Robert Potts - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1875 - 208 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. 201. ; He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of Mathematical... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - American essays - 1867 - 538 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.' It is in reference to this passage that he says : ' I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle... | |
 | 1880 - 470 pages
...Understanding,' a great deal of training is required to make men reasonable beings;' for, though we call ourselves so, because we are born to it if we please, yet we may truly say Nature gives us but the seeds of it; it is use and exercise that make us rational beings, and we are... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think, should be taught all those ila. Gulnaro and Medora appear to have been intentionally...circumstances would, it should seem, have sent Gulnare to th nature gives us but the seeds of it; we are born to be, if we please, rational creatures, but it is... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1881 - 182 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'...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1882 - 1112 pages
...train. Nothing does this better than mathematics,1 which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to...for though we all call ourselves so, because we are boni to it if we please, yet we may truly say, nature gives us but the seeds of it ; we are bom to... | |
 | Education - 1882 - 1112 pages
...train. Nothing does this better than mathematics,1 which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to...for though we all call ourselves so, because we are bom to it if we please, yet we may truly say, nature gives us but the seeds of it ; we are bom to be,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think, should be taught all those magination in the triumph of his. fancy, overpowered...may be true, that "in the olden time" genius had som nature gives us but the seeds of it; we are born to be, if we please, rational creatures, but it is... | |
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Just so it is in the mind ; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should... 
