 The studies which he sets him upon are but as it were the exercises of his faculties and employment of his time, to keep him from sauntering and idleness, to teach him application and accustom him to take pains, and to give him some little taste of what...  The Life of John Locke - Page 262by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Davidson - Education - 1900 - 310 pages
...of the world, rather than a scholar. " For who expects that under a tutor a young gentleman «hould be an accomplished critic, orator, or logician, go to the bottom of metaphysics, philosophy, or mathematics; or be a master in history or chronology? though something of each of these... | |
 | John Locke - Comprehension - 1901 - 156 pages
...as it were the exercises of his faculties and employment of his time to keep him from sauntering and idleness, to teach him application, and accustom him...little taste of what his own industry must perfect." This, and this only, is well principling,1 and not the instilling a reverence and veneration for certain... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - Education - 1905 - 280 pages
...it were the exercises of his faculties and employment of his time, to keep him from sauntering and idleness, to teach him application and accustom him...though something of each of these is to be taught him ; but it is only to open the door, that he may look in, and as it were begin an acquaintance, but not... | |
 | Paul Monroe - Education - 1905 - 816 pages
...it were, the exercise of his faculties and employment of his time; to keep him from sauntering and idleness ; to teach him application and accustom him...little taste of what his own industry must perfect." 1 As indicated by the analysis of the elements that first produced this view, the disciplinary conception... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1910 - 452 pages
...it wre, Ilie exercise of his faculties, and employment of his time, to keep him from sauntering and idleness, to teach him application, and accustom him...expects that, under a tutor, a young gentleman should be at) accomplished critick, orator, or logician ; go to the bottom of metaphysicks, natural philosophy,... | |
 | John Locke - Education - 1912 - 292 pages
...were, the exercises of his faculties, ^and employment of his time, to keep him from sauntering and idleness, to teach him application, and accustom him...Though something of each of these is to be taught him : but it is only to open the door, that he may look in, and, as it were, begin an acquaintance, but... | |
 | Patrick Joseph McCormick - Education - 1915 - 448 pages
...it were, the exercises of his faculties, and employment of his time, to keep him from sauntering and idleness, to teach him application, and accustom him...though something of each of these is to be taught him; but it is only to open the door, that he may look in, and, as it were, begin an acquaintance, but not... | |
 | George Johnson - Church schools - 1919 - 140 pages
...the employment of his time; to keep him from sauntering and idleness, to teach him application and to accustom him to take pains and to give him some little taste of what his own industry must perfect."86 John Locke, though his philosophy of education might as justly be classified with that... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - Education - 1920 - 716 pages
...it were the Exercises of his Faculties, and Employment of his Time, to keep him from Sauntering and Idleness, to teach him Application, and accustom him...that under a Tutor a young Gentleman should be an accomplish'd Critick, Orator, or Logician? go to the Bottom of Metaphysicks, natural Philosophy, or... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - Education - 1920 - 902 pages
...it were the Exercise of his Faculties, and Employment of his Time, to keep him from Sauntering and Idleness, to teach him Application, and accustom him...little Taste of what his own Industry must perfect (§ 94). In his Thoughts Locke first sets forth at length the necessity for disciplining the body by... | |
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