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
| Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - Education - 1920 - 916 pages
...Exercise of his Faculties, and Employment of his Time, to keep him from Sauntering and Idleness, to leach him Application, and accustom him to take Pains, and...little Taste of what his own Industry must perfect (ยง94). In his Thoughts Locke first sets forth at length the necessity for disciplining the body by... | |
| Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - Education - 1920 - 720 pages
...Critick, Orator, or Logician? go to the Bottom of Metaphysicks, natural Philosophy, or Mathcmaticks? or be a Master in History or Chronology-? 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... | |
| sister Mary Louise Cuff - 1920 - 170 pages
...lines of study, "to open the door, that he may look in, and as it were begin an acquaintance," and thus "to give him some little taste of what his own industry must perfect. ' '252 In the Conduct Locke enlarges upon this idea, making quite clear that he seeks specific disciplines.... | |
| Sister Mary Louise Cuff - 1920 - 156 pages
...lines of study, "to open the door, that he may look in, and as it were begin an acquaintance," and thus "to give him some little taste of what his own industry must perfect."252 In the Conduct Locke enlarges upon this idea, making quite clear that he seeks specific... | |
| John Locke - Education - 1922 - 294 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... | |
| Psychology - 1923 - 490 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...him some little Taste of what his own Industry must perfect"5. Here again a Formal Type of Moral Education seems to be recommended. The tutor will, it... | |
| Helen Wodehouse - Education - 1924 - 250 pages
...memory.' Geometry should be added. Locke makes an excellent defence of a wide ' smattering ' curriculum. ' Who expects, that under a tutor a young gentleman...though something of each of these is to be taught him : but it is only to open the door that he may look in. . . .' ' Whenever either spare hours ... or... | |
| Education - 1911 - 696 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...little taste of what his own industry must perfect. That which every gentleman (that takes any care of his education) desires for his son, besides the... | |
| Education - 1877 - 600 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." So we see that Locke agrees with Comenius in his enlarged view of the educator's task, and that he... | |
| Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1919 - 632 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... | |
| |