When I first started reading "The Role of a Scholar" I couldn't really understand it from the style of speech that Bacon was writing this in. I did find it very helpful to read in multiple times before I started to annotate it. Once I stared annotating I could actually understand what his essay was about even more!
I think Bacon is an amazing thinker and it seems like he knows what he was talking about from personal experience. Thats what I got out of it anyways. I think he was very practical but he also exaggerated a lot of some of the things he was describing!
"The Role of a Scholar" is more difficult a read than I would like. Being introduced to it, I guess might be helpful (for example: later on in high school) but having all of our reading being this kind of thing I would vote no to. Right now, I do believe that learning to annotate was helpful.
P.S. I am much more looking forward to anything about the Hunger Games :)
I like when you said that you think her was writing from a personal experience. I couldn't agree more! I was actually thinking the same thing as i was reading through the story. Also, i'm with you on the Hunger Games!!!
ReplyDeleteI would also vote no, if i hadn't seen what he said about reading. He said that if we do not understand what is already written then how can we come up with anything new. so i think it is important to read things like The Role of a Scholar. And i agree and think he had reading, conversation, and writing mastered before writing this.
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