REASONING & BRAINS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 68, 13 December 1933, Page 10

REASONING & BRAINS

Advice by Mr. Justice Blair Palmerston North, December 12. ' “It is the person who can acquire knowledge, place it in the right niche of the archives of his grain, and then use it for an entirely different purpose to that which he was taught, who makes progress,” said his Honour Mr. Justice Blair, when speaking at the annual “breaking-up” ceremony of the Palmerston North Technical School last night. "He resorts to the tablets in his brain for information," he continued. “and applies it to his own reasoning power to enable him to do things.” "Use your reasoning power or you become relegated to the position of an unskilled workman. The longer you use a machine the more it wears, but it is a man-made tool. The human brain is a God-made tool. It has the curious quality that the harder you use it the more it likes it, and the faster and better it works. A person who is equip ped with a wonderful instrument of that kind and is letting it do secondgrade work is not fulfilling the purpose for which he entered the world.”