The elements of plane geometry should precede algebra for every reason known to sound educational theory. It is more fundamental, it is more concrete, and it deals with things and their relations rather than with symbols.


The Meaning of Education, and Other Essays and Addresses, The Function of the Secondary School (p. 171), The Macmillan Co. 1904

Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes

The elements of plane geometry should precede algebra for every reason known to sound educational theory. It is more fundamental, it is more...

The elements of plane geometry should precede algebra for every reason known to sound educational theory. It is more fundamental, it is more...

The elements of plane geometry should precede algebra for every reason known to sound educational theory. It is more fundamental, it is more...

The elements of plane geometry should precede algebra for every reason known to sound educational theory. It is more fundamental, it is more...