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The Improvement of the Mind
About this book
"Perhaps the readers may find something here which may wake a latent genius and direct the studies of a willing mind."How accurate Isaac Watts was in that statement! For this book inspired the father of electromagnetism, Michael Faraday, and guided his way of thinking through all his scientific accomplishments. Given his great achievements from a limited starting point, isn't it worth discovering what Faraday found?This is a guide on how to learn, apply, and communicate effectively. Whether you're a student who wants to shorten your studying-hours and make them more efficient, a teacher who would like to add a flare to their lectures, a parent wanting to influence your children, or even just a reader wanting to improve your communication and critical analysis, this book will prove invaluable!It teaches you to make the most out of your books and lectures, learn a foreign language efficiently, improve your memory, resolve disputes in a logical way, and much more."Few books have been perused by me with greater pleasure than his Improvement of the Mind.
It is difficult to read a page without learning, or at least wishing, to be better."
~Dr. Johnson, literary critic
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Table of contents
- THE LIFE OF DR. WATTS.
- PREFACE, AND RECOMMENDATIONS BY DR. DODDRIDGE AND THE REV. MR. JENNINGS.
- PART I. DIRECTIONS FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
- CHAP. I. General Rules for the Improvement of Knowledge.
- CHAP. II. Observation, Reading, Instruction by Lectures, Conversation, and Study, compared.
- CHAP. III. Rules relating to Observation.
- CHAP. IV. Of Books and Reading.
- CHAP. V. Judgment of Books.
- CHAP. VI. Of living Instructions and Lectures, of Teachers and Learners.
- CHAP. VII. Of learning a Language.
- CHAP. VIII. Of inquiring into the Sense and Meaning of any Writer or Speaker, and especially the Sense of the Sacred Writings.
- CHAP. IX. Rules of Improvement by Conversation.
- CHAP. X. Of Disputes.
- CHAP. XI. The Socratical Way of Disputation.
- CHAP. XII. Of Forensic Disputes.
- CHAP. XIII. Of Academic or Scholastic Disputation.
- CHAP. XIV. Of Study or Meditation.
- CHAP. XV. Of Fixing the Attention.
- CHAP. XVI. Of Enlarging the Capacity of the Mind.
- CHAP. XVII. Of Improving the Memory.
- CHAP. XVIII. Of Determining a Question.
- CHAP. XIX. Of inquiring into Causes and Effects.
- CHAP. XX. Of the Sciences, and their Use in particular Professions.
- PART II.
- CHAP. I. Methods of Teaching, and Reading Lectures.
- CHAP. II. Of an Instructive Style.
- CHAP. III. Of convincing other Persons of any Truth, or delivering them from Errors and Mistakes.
- CHAP. IV. Of Authority. Of the Abuse of it: and of its real and proper Use and Service.
- CHAP. V. Of Treating and Managing the Prejudices of Men.
- CHAP. VI. Of Instruction by Preaching.
- CHAP. VII. Of Writing Books for the Public.
- CHAP. VIII. Of Writing and Reading Controversies.
- SECTION I. Of Writing Controversies.