Reading makes you enriched, discussion makes you witty, and taking notes makes you accurate. Therefore, those who do not often take notes must have a strong memory, those who do not often discuss must be naturally smart, and those who do not often read must have skills to deceive the world, so that they can show their knowledge from ignorance. Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people thoughtful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and the study of logic and rhetoric makes people eloquent: everything learned becomes character. If a person's intelligence is blocked, there is no need to read appropriate books to make it smoother. Just like all diseases in the body, they can be cured by appropriate exercises. Rolling a ball is good for the testicles and kidneys, archery is good for the chest and lungs, slow walking is good for the intestines and stomach, riding is good for the mind, and so on. If the intellect is not concentrated, it can be taught to read mathematics, and the performance questions must be concentrated, and if there is a slight distraction, it must be repeated; if it is not possible to distinguish differences, it can be taught to read scholastic philosophy, because this generation is full of fault-finding people; if it is not good at seeking common ground, it is not good at uniting. One thing can prove another thing by reading the lawyer's case file. In this way, every defect in the mind can be cured by special medicine. ——Bacon's "On Reading"