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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... "
The Elements of Logick: In Four Books ... Design'd Particularly for Young ... - Page 224
by William Duncan - 1748 - 363 pages
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Memorabilia Mathematica; Or, The Philomath's Quotation-book

Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 434 pages
...but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion. For in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathematical...
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The Primacy of Personality in Pedagogy

John William Jent - Education - 1914 - 104 pages
...mathematicians, but having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts -of knowledge as they shall have occasion. "The business of education is not, as I think, to make them (the young) perfect...
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A Student's History of Education

Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1915 - 552 pages
...creatures, that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." Similarly, he advises a wide range of sciences, "to accustom our minds to all...
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A Student's History of Education

Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1915 - 574 pages
...creatures, that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it ,to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." Similarly, he advises a wide range of sciences, "to accustom our minds to. all...
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Democracy in Education: A Social Interpretation of the History of Education

Joseph Kinmont Hart - Education - 1918 - 440 pages
...but that having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." It will be seen from these quotations that though the mind rather definitely...
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Democracy in Education: A Social Interpretation of the History of Education

Joseph Kinmont Hart - Education - 1918 - 440 pages
...but that having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." It will be seen from these quotations that though the mind rather definitely...
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The Limitations of the Educational Theory of John Locke Especially for the ...

Sister Mary Louise Cuff - 1920 - 156 pages
...that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer 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...
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The Educational Writings of John Locke

John Locke - Education - 1922 - 294 pages
...that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion. For in all sorts of reasoning every single argument should be managed as a mathematical...
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The British Journal of Psychology, Volume 13

Psychology - 1923 - 490 pages
...that men having got the way of reasoning, "which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." Furthermore, he believes that the study of this science is of infinite use even...
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The Pedagogical Seminary, Volume 21

Child development - 1914 - 658 pages
...that " having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able 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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