The improvement of the mind
by Isaac Watts · first published 1741
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There is also "The Improvement of the Mind" book, by Isaac Watts. It even shaped one of the great minds of science: Michael Faraday
on “Benjamin S. Bloom: Learning For Mastery (1968) [pdf]” ↗…it is now. He was apprenticed to a local bookbinder and bookseller at age 14 and became a voracious reader as a teenager. He later wrote that one of the books he read during that time changed his life—Improvement of the Mind, by Isaac Watts. He rigorously applied the personal development principles within and began studying science on his own from the book shop. He started attending public lectures of a prominent chemist,…
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