Show IT I Overstocked Brains Brain I 0 By JOHN JHN BLAKE BLAE The difference between a scholar cholar and a pedant is the difference rence between a a. factory and a warehouse The scholar cholar can use the knowledge he has stored awa away and mn can make profit out of it The pedant can use his but little Ittle and only clumsily There Is no advantage antage in acquiring a vast amount of ot learning merely for learning's sake A man who knows how to use a hammer hammer a and d saw effectively and usefully Is a a better educated man roan than one who has a whole braIn brain full fun ot of classic lore which he as learned by rote and whose bearIng bearing bearing bear bear- ing on other knowledge he cannot at all aU understand Nothing Is Is so useless as a n. great mass of inns inns- gathered g knowledge whose owner has been S' S swamped swamped-by dby It H. There Is something wrong In a L system of oC education lion tion which will Insist on a boys boy's learning Greek and Sanskrit be before ore he can write an and speak his own tongue not only correctly but effectively When he has learned to express what is in his mind he will wili begin to take an interest in ImprovIng ing it If It his speech is Js confused his thoughts will be confused He must both speak clearly and think clearly and cleanly and if It he does not do this naturally he must be taught to do it I have known a great many profoundly anil tedious old gentlemen cre who knew far morn mOre of what Is called learning than Abraham Abraham- Li Lincoln coi or r Mark lark Twain But what they knew was of ot no use to them while Lincoln and Twain learned nothing that that- they could not U use e surprisingly well weB If It you are accustomed to hear a great deal deai of ot speech making either of the after aner dinner or political political cal cai variety you know that most of the speakers are hopeless ss bores that they talk and talk and ta talk I Ion on endlessly never exp expressing an original thought or supplying you with anything startling or even interesting to think about Now and then some men will get gElt up and in ten minutes will say sav more than all the rest of the speakers speak speak- ers era of ot the evening have said In half halt an hour apiece and say it in a way that chains your interest These men mei may not be so widely read or so well welt informed on all aU manner of ot matters as their wearisome wearisome wear wear- some predecessors but they know how to use whit they know which Js is the important thing And you oll ou can rest reet assured that if IC they continue they will learn more for tor they have the sort of oC minds that are c capable pAble of ot growth In every town there is usually one preacher who never fails taUs of ot an audience He ought to be given a monopoly cf ct the preaching and the others ethers ought to g go into some other calling cabling They are good and well meaning men but th they have overstocked brains and the overstocked brain cannot think because of ot the vast amount of labor that clogs its processes presses Copyright 1926 by the Bell Syndicate Inc |