The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 78
Australian Confirmation
Australian Confirmation.
What was learnt under a system of overstrain was little, if any, use. . . Knowledge might be gained and retained for a while, but it was not wisdom, and could not last. A friend of his once wittily described, the ultimate or examination result of cramming boys and girls with book lore as a process of "cerebed vomiting," which was appropriate, [unclear: inas] much as knowledge so ingested was [unclear: is] variably got rid of as effectually as it It had never been acquired.
Due weight should be attached to the scientific opinions of Dr Lockhart Gibson not merely as the leading oculist in Queens land, but as a man of the broadest [unclear: scien] tific attainments, and formerly [unclear: senior] assistant physiologist at Edinburgh [unclear: Uni] versity. The compliment he paw to [unclear: Dr.] Ferguson's paper applied equally to [unclear: hi] own remarks: "It was the kind of [unclear: paper] which tended to confirm Dr Rossi's [unclear: defin] tion of a modern specialist—' a man [unclear: wh] has a special knowledge in his own de- page 31 partment, and who is a complete clinician in the whole field of medicine and surgery,'"