Month: March 2007

Here is Francis Bacon in Book II of the Advancement of Learning, explaining to King James why more funding is needed for university lecturers: “And because founders of colleges do plant and founders of lectures do water, it followeth well in order to speak of the defect which is in public lectures; namely, in the smallness and meanness of the salary or reward which in most places is assigned to them, whether they be lectures of arts or of professions.”

Amen, Francis.

From Francis Bacon’s “Advancement of Learning,” written in 1605:

“We see it is [an] error to rely upon advocates or lawyers which are only men of practice and not grounded in their books, who are many times easily surprised when matter falleth out besides their experience, to the prejudice of the cases they handle.”

This is one reason why we study theory and history along with practice!