"USE YOUR BRAIN"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 149, 12 July 1937, Page 5

"USE YOUR BRAIN"

-Presa Auocletioa.)

Scottish Professor Stresses Need For Thonglit DEVELOP1NG THE MIND

(By 'JCelegtftph-

AUCKLAND, Thxs Day. The need for any audxence to think for itself was stressed to-day b3? William Boyd, head of the Departmqnt of Education, Glasgow TJniyefsity, ua, giying an address under tbe auqino9fk of the New Education Eell6ws|iij>, fls did not want people to simply a^rqf. with the speaker, howover authoM^Vjq, but simply use what he said as a, b^hf. for their own opinions. Pfe added t hafi most people did not think ifihch a|wf their teens. That was one a^gx^men^ for advancing the school age. j|&» thought that half the preseut schopl curriculum was wrpng hut it did : to keep the mind open. If a youth took a position, tqo early* his mind becamie mechaniaed witih stultified thought. Dr. Boyd : the lesson learned through contact witk I the unemployment situation in ^08* I land. At first sport was the only ec- ! tivity in unemployment clubs formed j to combat the problem, hut it was theiA , ! seen that sport was "poor stuff for the human soul." Some occujpation ^ was needed and that had led to the introduction of drama, fine arts, and music, . These were important, not only to the 'unemployed, but to all persoUs, both children and adults. t