Of Studies

Analysis Of Studies, written by Sir Francis Bacon, is one of the best read English essays in the history of Literature. It tackles about studying and its fundamentals. How it should be done, how it enriches an individual and how it should be augmented. Sir Francis Bacon was one of the greatest English writers and philosophers of the 1600s. He was a lawyer but atop that, he also studied science, philosophy, and natural history. As an author, he is best remembered for a diversity of broad essays in which he imparts his own observations on a wide range of topics. In this essay, Of Studies, Bacon focuses on the benefits of reading and studying and communicating. According to Francis Bacons theory, studies serve for three functions. For delight, for ornament, and for ability. For delight may be taken as the rest one person needs when hes totally exhausted or simply just for peace when he only wants to be alone. For ornament, of course. When a person is known to be studying, he is also known to be learned. Being learned comes with the ability of communicating effectively and efficiently and this earns a man more than usual. Education is one of the greatest treasures a man can ever acquire. Using studying for ability is the most ordinary reason a man has to study or why a man studies. It gives the man an opportunity to grasp knowledge of his interest. If a man is well educated about the things he is fond of, he would have a chance to be great and show the world what he can do. Studying helps people to know of some things that they dont necessarily have to go to school for them. Example: when a woman is taking Accountancy but her real choice is to be a fashion designer. As she studies the fundamentals of Accountancy in college, she may learn about Fashion Designing through reading books, magazines, and internet articles. Thats how it works. Every one can receive the best of performances from those who are welleducated. Who are those people? The people who study.

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But studying, just like everything, should also be done moderately and not excessively. Francis Bacon stated that, Too spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. This statement implies that even an educated person can be classified as uneducated and over-reacting when he makes use of studying way too much. Reading can be done twenty-four hours a day but it sure would be laziness since there is no productivity in reading lest it is for revision. To communicate to a common person with highly complicated words and terms shouldnt also be done. We must always think about our receiver as our equal so we have to see to it that they understand what we are saying about or we may be classified as proud and pretentious. Lastly, we should never use studying to judge others on how they live or on how much they earn or their educational attainment. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, was a very simple yet complex account. Crafty men are the artists who keep on pushing the chance of studying away because they know in their own selves that studying will lead them to be normal and normal isnt crafty at all. Mostly, artists are the people who are deviant to the norms of the society and they are all about to keep it that way. Therefore, they hate studying because of that. Simple men are the people who werent able to accomplish much in life in terms of schooling. This is the explanation why they tend to be taken away by people who are more fortunate than they are because it primarily gives them a reason to continue what they should have. Wise men, of course, are the most discerning people in Bacons hierarchy. Wise people make use of education in almost every reason and chance. For example, they use it in businesses, professions among other reasons. This statement of Francis Bacons lead us to the conclusion that he categorizes people into three divisions. Crafty, simple and wise men. Francis Bacon also classifies reading into three categories. Books that are to be tasted, swallowed and some to be chewed and digested. Books that are to be tasted are the books you are only meant to read in parts. Dictionaries and encyclopedias for instance. No one is required to read them word for word and cover to cover because not
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all of the contents in these books are connected to each other. Books that are to be swallowed are the books we need to meditate to. These are the books that we need to read cover to cover. Novels for example. We need to decipher these books to know its patterns and to grasp knowledge from it. Then the books that are to be chewed and digested. These are the books need to be read with assiduousness and patience. One of these books is the holy bible. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. This statement is the simplest yet the greatest. It is only written with quite a few words but it can be expounded into a hundreds of thoughts. Reading is what makes a man whole. It is the reason that man learns and it gives them ideas, theories, and logic that no other thing can offer them. Conference, or communication in simple language, is what enhances a mans nobility and ability to exercise the knowledge he had gained from reading. Through talking, he is able to add and express his discoveries to other people. Writing, in the simplest of forms, is what a man needs to record the learning he had acquired from conferencing and reading. Obviously, a mans memory is the most unreliable source hes got so in able to preserve his knowledge, he has to write them down.

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