"Reading history makes people wise" means that reading history can see the right and wrong of others and make them make correct judgments when facing the same or similar events, thus making people wise. This is what the British philosopher Francis Bacon said.

Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people incisive, mathematics makes people careful, physics makes people deep, ethics makes people grave, logic and rhetoric make people able to contend.

Reading history can make people understand things and have foresight; Reading poems makes people clever and witty; Learning mathematics can make people thoughtful and meticulous; Natural philosophy can make people thorough; Ethics can make people not casual and frivolous; Learning logical rhetoric can make people good at rhetorical debate.

Starting with On Learning, this paper analyzes the main purpose of learning, how different people adopt different learning methods, and how learning exerts a subtle influence on people's temperament and character. The language of On Learning is tolerant and persuasive, and its structure is concise and compact, which reveals bacon's natural and objective attitude towards learning to readers.