THE WORKSHOP THE ROAD TO SUCCESS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 278, 4 July 1888, Page 2

THE WORKSHOP THE ROAD TO SUCCESS.

The acquirement of a handicraft is, as a rule, easier and less irksome to a youth than book-learning ; but when the utility and power of knowledge are appreciated it will be pursued with greater zest, for, other things equal, the educated workman will always take precedence of the uneducated. The road to success is far surer and shorter now-a-dayg through tho workshop than from the class-room or tho office. In mechanical engineering whence come the managers of works ? Not from among the clerks or draughts-men, but out of tho shop ; though naturally, of two equally good workmen, 1 he who knows more will have tho better chance and advance the faster. Who become clerks of works, and ultimately, perhaps, managers of large works? 'Not" architectural draughtsmen and quantity surveyors' clerks, but .foremen or leading hands of masons,

bricklayers, carpenters, or joiners, all of whom find out, indeed, that knowledge is powtr when they hnvetfie opportunity of turning 1 it to Account. We do not underrate education ; we-^niefely assert that it will not perse buy bread and cheese. Those who arc dependant on their own resources must make themselves useful first and foremost ; and the surest way — that least likely fo fail at a pineh — lies through the hands.— Phrenological Magazine.