THE CREATIVE INSTINCT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1926, Page 10

THE CREATIVE INSTINCT.

'"It is the encouragement in the practical craftsman of an intelligent interest in the products of his firm to which America owes her position as the greatest machine-producing nation in the world,'" said Mr. E. C. Isaac, in the course of a talk in Wellington upon technical education. "We have to go to America for the best machines for some purposes, and the reason is that every man employed in the shops there is encouraged to take Ws employer into consultation whenever an improvement in methods or machinery suggests itself to him. This encouragement of the creative instinct, which underlies all technical education, had been the means of producing some of the most wonderful machines in existence, and has perfected and improved machines already wonderful. Th-e South Bend Lathe Company has a school to which it sends every boy in its business. It is not a school where time is wasted in theoretical matters, though a thorough grounding is given in every sort of constructional knowledge. The' products of the school are marketed at commercial rates to everybody who wants them. I am fully convinced that the time will come when swh schools will be found in connection with all the big shops in New Zealand, and that sooner or later the policy of the Government Railway shops will be altered to permit of their introduction there."