# Francis Bacon — Democracy and Education character guide

> Francis Bacon in Democracy and Education by John Dewey.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Bacon

**First appearance:** 0086-i-the-logical-and-the-psychological

## Who they are

Philosopher credited with advancing scientific method and empiricism.

## In the story

### [XX: Intellectual and Practical Studies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/chapters/xx-intellectual-and-practical-studies)

Bacon is referenced as a modern reformer who advocated appealing to experience to break away from authority and preconceived notions, emphasizing observation over dogma.

### [The Modern Theory of Experience and Knowledge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/chapters/ii-the-modern-theory-of-experience-and-knowledge)

Bacon is cited for his critique of 'anticipating nature' and his call to resort to experience.

### [Experience as Experimentation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/chapters/iii-experience-as-experimentation)

Referenced implicitly through the introduction of the experimental method in the seventeenth century, which transformed knowledge acquisition.

### [The Modern Scientific Interest in Nature](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/chapters/ii-the-modern-scientific-interest-in-nature)

Presented as a key figure uniting naturalistic and humanistic interests, advocating for science as a means to control nature for human benefit, though his vision was later co-opted for class exploitation.

### [The Individual and the World](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/chapters/xxii-the-individual-and-the-world)

Mentioned among educational reformers who vehemently denounced learning on hearsay and emphasized personal experience as the basis of knowledge.

### [Mind as Purely Individual](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/democracy_and_education_se/chapters/i-mind-as-purely-individual)

Cited as an educational reformer who denounced learning acquired on hearsay and emphasized personal experience.

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