Untitled

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 358, 1 October 1889, Page 2

A contemporary remarks In every-day life no fact is more noticeable than the inability of many persona to do t)ieir own thinking, even in matters and upon ItMS wholly within the range of their Intelligenoe, They will see a point that ia suggested to them, and will at once understand its bearing on some matter in hand, but they do not seem to have the faculty or art of raising points for themselves, and consequently their aotion is not as Intelligent as it might he. If given a rule ta work by, they will apply it not only In season but out of season, ana will look amazed if one suggests that, undes special circumstances, they should have varied their usual procedure. Every employer and overseer of labor knows to what ah extent this is the case. It is the except tlonal workman who really thinks, and who can therefore be trusted to suit his aotion to circumstances. And so in nearly every sphere of life a kind of automatism seems tc be the rule, and Intelligent selt-direution, u[ the light of present facte, more or less the expentjon- One fa- therefore, tempted tu Ml whether in <-oaM«hia o| - education tome gymnastic might' not bo devised for ths special purpose of teaching the rising generation to think,; B