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" I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings... "
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 339
by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pages
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A Student's History of Education

Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1915 - 550 pages
...time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures, that having got the way of reasoning, which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." Similarly, he advises a wide range of sciences, "to accustom our minds to all sorts of ideas and the...
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Democracy in Education: A Social Interpretation of the History of Education

Joseph Kinmont Hart - Education - 1918 - 440 pages
...closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should go deep into mathematics, but that having got the way of reasoning which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." It will be seen from these quotations that though the mind rather definitely emerges from its age-long...
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Democracy in Education: A Social Interpretation of the History of Education

Joseph Kinmont Hart - Education - 1918 - 440 pages
...closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should go deep into mathematics, but that having got the way of reasoning which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." It will be seen from these quotations that though the mind rather definitely emerges from its age-long...
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History of Education

Charles Clinton Boyer - Education - 1919 - 480 pages
...and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures, . . . that having got the way of reasoning which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." His selection of subjects is evidently based on the conviction that the efficiency which the body or...
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The Limitations of the Educational Theory of John Locke Especially for the ...

Sister Mary Louise Cuff - 1920 - 156 pages
...reasonable creatures. . . . Not that I think it necossary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but s that, having got the way of reasoning, which that...it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion."104 Again, "the business of education ... is not, as I think, to make them (the pupils) perfect...
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The Limitations of the Educational Theory of John Locke, Especially for the ...

sister Mary Louise Cuff - 1920 - 170 pages
...not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration, the connection and dependence of ideas should be "'Essay, Bk. II., c. 21, 6. MBk. II., c. 21, 17. followed...
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Humanistic Studies: Hengest: a study in early English hero legend. Le Liure ...

University of Iowa - Philology - 1921 - 876 pages
...connection of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics. . . . For, in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument...should be managed as a mathematical demonstration; "Comparing and combini the connection and dependence ideas in the mind, for the pi of ideas should...
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The British Journal of Psychology, Volume 13

Psychology - 1923 - 490 pages
...comments on in the well-known Seventh Section of the Conduct, headed 'Mathematics.' He thinks that men having got the way of reasoning, "which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." Furthermore, he believes that the study of this science is of infinite use even to grown men5, and...
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The Pedagogical Seminary, Volume 21

Child development - 1914 - 658 pages
...191.) matics, where he even uses the term " transfer." He says children should be taught mathematics so that " having got the way of reasoning, which that...to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they have occasion." But he sees clearly that this transfer may work for evil as well as good : "A metaphysician...
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Education, Volume 45

Education - 1925 - 666 pages
...a man cannot have too much ; it settles in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train," so that, "having got the way of reasoning, which that...single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration."22 Simple arithmetic may be correlated with geography and astronomy. History is an important...
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