THE AMBIDEXTEROUS MIND.

Northern Advocate, 24 February 1911, Page 2

THE AMBIDEXTEROUS MIND.

The advantages possessed by the ambidexterous over the merely dexterous man in music, surgery, and sport have often been brought before our notice, says the "Westminister Gazette." But we never suspected that his superiority in these or in other spheres was anything more than aianual. From Berlin, however, comes the assurance that to be ambidexterous is also to be better balanced mentally; for, whereas right-handed people have the organ of speech on one oide of the brain, and vice versa, "people who are ambidexterous have two language centres, one on each lobe (of the brain)". This claim may or may not be based on a physiological fact. But before we endow it with yny educational or scientific value, we should like to know how far its proposed application to German national schools is promoted by genuine scientists, and how the "Bilingualists" are again at work. If the latter supposition is correct, it is to be f ;arod 'hat cultivators of ambidexterity as an intellectual asset may have to look for their fruition to other countries than Germany, which has too often bean a dumping-ground for unclaimed scientific causes in the past.