 | Charles Clinton Boyer - 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...be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." His selection of subjects is evidently based on the conviction that the... | |
 | sister Mary Louise Cuff - 1920 - 170 pages
...to make them reasonable creatures. . . . Not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning,...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1922 - 294 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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 :... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Ernest Albert Weinke - 1925 - 452 pages
...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,...mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other T £i parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." In America and the leading European countries... | |
 | Joseph Kinmont Hart - 1927 - 368 pages
...reasonable creatures . . . 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 necessarily brings the mind to, they might transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." In religious matters, Professor... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - 704 pages
...to make them reasonable creatures. . . . Not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning,...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... | |
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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... 
