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Single Idea 257

[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles ]

Full Idea

For domestic and public purposes, and all professional skills, no branch of a child's education has as big a range of applications as mathematics.

Clarification

'Skill' is the Greek word 'techné'

Gist of Idea

Mathematics has the widest application of any subject on the curriculum

Source

Plato (The Laws [c.348 BCE], 747a)

Book Ref

Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.218