APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
You know that among the Be'eS, it depends on the kind of cell in w. i h the egg is deposited, and the quantity and quality of food which ia supplied to the grub, whether it shall 'turn out a busy little worker or a big idle queen. And, in tbe human lnve, the cells of the endowered hreae are always tending to enlarge, and their food to improve, until we get queens, beautiful to behold, hut which gatheV no lior.ey and build no comb-. * * * * Examination, like fire, is a pood servant but a 'bad -master ; and there seems to me to be some clanger of its becoming our master. I by no means stand qlone in this opinion. Experienced friends of mine do not hesitate to say that students whose career they watch appear to them to bee me deteriorated by the constant effort to pass this or that examination, just as we hear of men’s brains becoming effe'tod by tbe daily necessity of catching a train. They work to pass not to know; and outraged S.ien'ie , J takes her revenge. They do pass, and. they don’t- know.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1931, Page 4
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192APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1931, Page 4
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