 | Naomi Zack - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 268 pages
...presumably create heirs who would be hardier than their parents, because, as Locke tells us at the outset, "of all the Men we meet with, Nine Parts of Ten are what they are, Good or Evil, useful or not, by their Education."-'" Thus, children returned to a household after weaning are first... | |
 | Jörg Thomas Peters, John Locke - Public welfare - 1997 - 364 pages
...only to show what parents and tutors should aim at, and leave them the ordering of "I think I may say, that of all the Men we meet with, Nine Parts of Ten are what they are, Good or Evil, useful or not, by their Education. Tis that which makes the great Difference in Mankind. The little,... | |
 | Roger Smith - Social sciences - 1997 - 1070 pages
...evil in terms of pleasure and pain. At the opening of his Thoughts, Locke stated: 'I think I may say, that of all the Men we meet with. Nine Parts of Ten are what they are. Good or Evil, useful or not, by their Education.'14 This was an extraordinary vote of confidence in the human power... | |
 | Ian Cumming - Education - 1998 - 280 pages
...inequality in minds or understandings was the effect of the differences in education. Locke observed that 'of all the Men we meet with, nine Parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their Education.' l It was Education, he wrote, which made 'the great Difference... | |
 | Nathan Tarcov - Education - 1999 - 292 pages
...is limited in its practical effects, since Examples of this Kind are but few, and I think I may say, that of all the Men we meet with, Nine Parts of Ten are what they are, Good or Evil, useful or not, by their Education. The Thoughts is designed for the education of the nine in ten who... | |
 | Antonio T. De Nicolás - Education - 2000 - 582 pages
...constitutions, are able to do wonders. But examples of this kind are but few; and I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education. 'Tis that which makes the great difference in mankind. The little,... | |
 | David Rubinstein - Social Science - 2001 - 260 pages
...182). In the liberal tradition, differences in ability were seen as socially produced. Locke thought that "of all the Men we meet with, nine Parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their Education" (quoted in Spragens, 1981, p. 100). The eighteenth-century philosopher... | |
 | Christine Hatt - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 72 pages
...sides of the argument and the sources, then judge for yourself. SOURCE 1 §1 ...I think I may say th< of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education. 'Tis that which makes the great difference in mankind . . §32 ...If... | |
 | Jean E. Friedman, Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein - History - 2001 - 314 pages
...ideas derived from external or sensate experience. Locke himself believed that of all the individuals "we meet with, Nine Parts of Ten are what they are, Good or Evil, useful or not, by their Education." '0' Eliza had been "taught the right," yet her habits belied "the... | |
 | David Bindman - Art - 2002 - 276 pages
...who were educated and those who were not. As Locke claimed at the beginning of Thoughts on Education, 'of all the Men we meet with, Nine Parts of Ten are what they are, Good or Evil, useful or not, by their Education'.12 By education Locke meant, of course, the European kind, based... | |
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I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education. 
