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Educational Foundations (Francis Bacon (Philosophy of invention is…

- - - - Force seen in 3 inventions
        
        Printing, gunpowder, & nautical needle
        
        Changed status of world; no greater influence
    - - those who seek to advance the position of their own country in the world
      - Those who seek to restore and exalt the power and domain of man himself, of the human race, over the universe
      - those seek to augment their personal power in their own country
  - - - Idols of the Tribe
        
        Human understanding = uneven mirror
        
        Lies deep in human nature & race of mankind
      - Idols of the Cave
        
        We all have our own cave of den
        
        Falsifies light of nature
        
        Men seek knowledge in lesser worlds, not in greater world
      - Idols of the Market-place
        
        Speech is mean of association; words applied to common understanding
        
        Words do violence to understanding
      - Idols of the Theatre
        
        Crept into minds from philosophies
        
        Axioms of science established by tradition & neglect
  - - - Books of learning
        
        libraries, new authors, diligent annotations, faithful translations
      - Persons of learned
        
        lecturers, teachers, professors, pass along knowledge and information
      - Place of learning
        
        buildings, institutions, grants of franchises; tend to release from care/trouble
    - - Teachers are not paid enough
      - Science needs to be funded more to prompt innovation & discovery
      - Colleges are dedicated to professions; not free to study arts and sciences at large
      - Closer relationship & collaboration between universities - sharing resources & information
      - Designation of "fit men" to write or make inquiry concerning knowledge
  - - - Time, travel, experience have revealed things in nature; new light on natural philosophy
    - - Blacker the past, brighter the hope for the future
        
        New world beckons, and trial should be made
        
        Not to try is greater hazard than failing
    - - Greeks
      - Western Europe
      - Romans
- - - - Spatial unities - possible to see constantly, recognize immediately
        
        Visibility is a trap
        
        Invisibility is a guarantee of order
        
        For schoolchildren there is no copying, noise, chatter, or time wasting
        
        Eye of supervisor & full lighting
      - Supervisor in central tower
        
        Power should be visible & unverifiable
        
        One sees everything without being seen
      - Produces homogeneous effects of power
      - Possible to draw differences
        
        For schoolchildren, possible to observe performance
      - Democratically controlled
        
        Accessible to the committee of the world
        
        Community access - "public education"
      - Used when dealing w/ multiplicity of individuals where a particular behavior must be imposed
        
        Schools, prisons, workshops
        
        People kept under inspection
    - - Gave rise to disciplinary projects
        
        Called for organization in surveillance & depth of control
      - Strict spatial partitioning
        
        Enclosed, segmented space
        
        Individuals in fixed space
        
        Observed at every point
      - Surveillance is based on permanent registration
      - Inspection functions ceaselessly
        
        Chain for command for inspections & reports
        
        Everyone locked in cages, answering when called
        
        Great review of living & dead
      - Magistrates have control
      - Families have provisions
        
        Receive ration without communication