THE WORKSHOP THE ROAD TO SUCCESS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 1933, 17 February 1888, Page 6

THE WORKSHOP THE ROAD TO SUCCESS.

The acquirement of a handicraft is, as a rule, easier and le3s irksome to a youth than book-learning ; but when the utility and power of knowledge are appreciated it will be pursued with greater zest, for, other things equal, the educated workman will always take precedence of the uneducated. The road to success is far surer and shorter now-a-days through the workshop than from the class-room or the office. In mechanical engineering whence come the managers of works 1 Not from among the clerks or draughtsmen, but out of the shop ; though naturally, of two equally good workmen, he who knows more will have the better chance and advance the faster. Who become clerks of works, and ultimately, perhaps, managers of large works 1 Not architectural draughtsmen and quantity surveyors' clerks, but foremen or leading hands of masons, bricklayers, carpenters, or joiners, all of whom find out, indeed, that knowledge is power when they have ' the opportunity of turning it to account, j We do not underrate education; we merely assert that it will not per se buy bread and cheese. Those who are dependent on their own resources must make themselves useful first and foremost; and the surest way — that least likely to fall at a pineh — lies through the hands. — Phrenological Magazine.