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From Education springs t lie impulse, tobetter things that brings a nation or an individual niio the forefront of the battle, and the impetus that carries them to victory. It is chiefly to her education that New Zealand owes .'her advanced, legislation, her growing trade, her pride of place in the ranks'of the Kmpire. It is individual that has made all these things possible. It is a man's desire to improve hnnseU and his position—or, more laudable still, to improve his childieu and theus—that nuives um and more keen to grasp for himself the master-key of' Education that unlocks the doors of the social, commercial, mental, and physical woilds. . !si€fiEii ¥©op EdiiisatS®!? ■ : 1 Sncpease Youp Earning Pdwei*. ■ —keep yourself abreast of the movements of tbe . Imagine the bricklayer who has tints studied world in Art and Science and Literature, read the his bricks. Is it possible that he will reman, a lives of the great Captains of Industry, and find bricklayer on a bricklayer's wage? huch a man the secrets of their success, study the workings of wollld bs "itain of speedy advancement. Hi* the Councils that are making history, learn all employed would be only too ready to i erogn.se ins there is to leain of .your own profession or hade, capabilities and make, use of them. Ana so it is business or work. with yon. You cannot learn too much. Every ron't be like a bricklayer who is content with hour you spent in study is adding pounis to >our knowing only how to lay bricks-find out how ! earning power. Look at your own work and fl.nu--tl ev pre msde and what they are made from and of alt >' ou wight .ea'u about n. .here urv_ «t.i all that thev can be used for. At firef thought a above you simply because tney know more ana are brick is a brick, and there is little more to be said worth more. hducrUe yoursek to their level una of it. But go back to the beginning and your study y° l! Uil ' reacil uleads you to tbe day and clay-pits, ihe different Fortunately for New Zealand, social qualities. .qualities of clay, i'.s countries and conditions of do not count for as much lieie as they do in the", origin, and so to the wide fields of geology, Eetuni older countries, , Here a man is tried out in the aga : n to pick up the thread at the processes of firei of ins'rit and capability. But even if a man i--: manufacture, the brick kilns and machinery and capable and energetic aiid an expert in 'nis own plant, and on into building problems of slre-ses and work, it is a handicap if he is ignorant and an-, strains, durabili.y and efficiency. And in each iiem educated beyond it.. If . you have children . you of production you can make side excursions into would hate to think thsy could not read or wr.t:, or the conditions of the workers—their pay and hours, even tbat they were, cons'dered dull or stupid bcsice their organizations and societies, their rnetl ols and their fellows. You take a natural pride in their producing powers. • knowledge and education, and as tiicy grow up yc u, ' There is all thii to learn about a brick. Isn't are S hd ' lo ™ thej ' can ( hold^ h f i ' nr T» \l there just as much or more to learn about any conyeisabcn and any S oe.et\ ,« l»oM your Ln occupation? And that is oiilv prac- or less u ! m ' l,a:ett youlself lts ,nc bU ,]eCt ' tical aid technical education. There is the other « ] f »S'bussed ,n yonr piesenee an t yen have side of it, the side that teaches you to think, that to keep silent or con.es> igno.an.e. broadens your outlook, that gives you intellectual ; And so education cuts into ewry day of your pleasure, that makes you all that is .summed up in life, and the more you have of it, the be t r you the expression "a well-read man or woman." j are off in liK-ntal, moral and physical well-beinij. How can you get 111, 7 How find the Time ] this Education? @ oney or You can get it all in one work —a work approved and published by a great English". University. You can have, by your easy chair, all the necessary education and iuformation on any subject under the sun. You can have it labelled and classified and packed away in the 29 slender volumes of THE NEW (11th) EDSTIOEM ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA: acknowledged by the highest authorities to be the finest educational work iii existence—'". in fact it is written by the highest authorities themselves. The time for reading it ?nd so educating yourself will find itself. The work is of such absorbing interest that you will find yourself in its perusal filling in.many odd hours that would otherwise be wasted. It is so magnificently written and illustrated that you will find the keenest pleasure as well as profit in it. ■ And the cost is within the reach of everyone earning a wage in New Zealand. It is so low that you can pay it without missing it. The price depends on the binding you select and the period you wish to carry your payments over. The vital point is that you ®J®ll I with your ordor to obtain tho need only pay down «smm 1 I Immediate use of the books. No further payment is required till one month after delivery. You can go on paying one guinea each month or arrange payments on the other easy terms, of which particulars ■ will be sent (together with an illustrated prospectus, and specimen pages of the work) writing your name and address here, tearing it-off'and sending-it to the Cambridge University Press, 2 Harris Street, Wellington (P.O. Box 142.) Namk ' ■ W<i. 17 Address. '. . ...,,

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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1430, 3 May 1912, Page 7

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Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1430, 3 May 1912, Page 7

Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1430, 3 May 1912, Page 7

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