Francis Bacon: teory, method and contributions to the education

• Main Author: Roberto Carlos Simões Galvão
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2007-04-01
• Series: INTERthesis
• Subjects: Filosofia da educação; Método indutivo; Ciência; Philosophy of the education; Inductive method; Science; Filosofía de la educación; Método inductivo
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/620

In the present article, we propose a brief analysis of Francis Bacon’s thought (1561-1626) and his contributions to the Education. With Bacon, the old religious or metaphysical character of knowledge was substituted by the objectivity of the experimental science, something unknown until then. The science started to represent a means in search of an end, i.e., man’s control over nature. The desire of Bacon to promote a reorganization of the power of the human knowledge, not based on the old scholastic knowledge, but in the new scientific knowledge, was shared by educators, philosophers and statesmen of his time. The role of the school would be to assure the dissemination of this new knowledge which, properly unified, would be within reach of all the children