 The business of education, as I have already observed, is not, as I think, to make them perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.  A Student's History of Education - Side 179af Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1915 - 453 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Locke - 1886 - 320 sider
...U. § 6.) From this it follows that "the business of education is not as I think to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open...capable of any when they shall apply themselves to it." Their studies should be various, but the end proposed should be "an increase of the powers and activity... | |
 | General Electric Company - 1908 - 334 sider
...his "Conduct of the Understanding," Locke says: "The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open...capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it ... It is therefore to give them this freedom that I think they should be made to look into all sorts... | |
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