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Bacon: The Advancement of Learning

A survey of everything people know, what is missing, and why learning is worth the effort.

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Volume
28 of the 1990 set
Author
Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
Work
The Advancement of Learning 1605

Ideas: Teaching and learning How we know anything Progress and decline

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