Ideas for Further Study
You may not be familiar with the 17th century scholar Isaac Watts, but he played an important role in the advancement of science. Interestingly, he wasn’t actually a scientist. He was an English logician, teacher, and musician, and he’s probably best known for being the composer of the hymn “Joy to the World.”
But aside from all that, he was an important theorist on the nature of learning, an original thinker on the subject of scientific and logical pedagogy. His influence on the inventors and experimenters who appear in these pages was immense.
Watts urged his students to improve their minds, and he wanted them to do more than simply read about a subject. He promoted learning about something by using five different ...
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