ONE-TRACK MINDS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1934, Page 4

ONE-TRACK MINDS

THE WIRELESS EXPERT. Addressing the students at University Nottingham, on the occasion of the annual prize distribution recently, Lord Trent appealed to them to cultivate a zest for knowledge for its own sake and because knowledge meant .power. “A University career,” he said, “is often regarded superficially as the cop-

ing stone of one’s education. In later life we come io realise that it was only the foundation-stone. Its success is to be'judged by the extent to which it has made us greedy for knowledge throughout the rest of our lives.” They all knew the wireless expert who eternally twiddled the controls of his set and neVer stopped to listen to what was coming through. He was typical of the people who went through life in blinkers, having no sense of perspective, however good they might be at their own particular job.

They could have no creative imagintion, because there could be no imagination without knowledge, and they suffered from one-track minds. Such people became a burden to themselves and those with wjiom they lived. The petty husband and the pugging wife acquired their characteristics because they had nothing outside the f trivial affairs to occupy , their minds with. ■ .