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'We remember, not because we are interested in the past, but because we are going to act in the present and plan for the future," says JAMES DREVER, M.A., D. Phil, B.Sc., F.R.S.E., Professor of Psychology, Edinburgh University. He goes on to explain
THE TECHNIGUE OF REMEMBERING
Someone once coined the wit ticism that our memories are what we forget with. He did not just mean that most of us hava
memories. pretty bad Forgotting really is, in nome ways, the most important part of remembering.
much of it, but he has worked it
It
BY THE WAY
By BEACHCOMBER
Intrigued by the fascinating headline, " Ministries Talk As Fish Vanishes," I have had this casa quietly investigated. It can now be disclosed that, still wear ing his baltor, the fish who made the break got clean away.
Pending Interruption from some not yet decided upon, the BOUTCO yet
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faced with something which has not much shape of sense in it- into a shape that he can use. Ministries concerned Food, La
bour, and Agric., self, in order to remember it is there, ready, behind every-romain deep in conversation and you have to introduce something thing he says and does.
otherwise unmoved. As ono Agric. from outside. Sometimes what. The man who merely knows & Fish official succinctly put it: you Introduce will ao change the that, who has collected a great "After all, it was only a cod."" material you are trying to re- many facts, has never really Nightly At 6.0 And 8.30 member ns to make it almost related what he knows to the
A current controversy which, unrecognisable.
sort of jobs he may be caller while splintering the operatle upon to do. His knowledge world Into · thousand pieces Now, what is all this leading to? Well, the problem of re-ever becomes part of him, but might just possibly have ancaked membering in general may be remains bomething which he past your window
Jas swallowed but has not concerned with whother Wagnor by keeping these | digested.
wrote the opening line of Hang made casier things in mind. We are all
Sucha monologue as "Was duftet This has on important bear- doch der Flieder," or "Wie dufter, called upon to remember some-
time or other. ing on what you should do etc., etc., etc." Briefly, was it Wie, thing at some whether it is gun drill or chemi-when you come to tackla ny
or wie it Was?
You do. I trust. follow ina? I cal formulae or a poem new subject. Mako Aure that
the next few steps towards phone numbers. What is the you are absorbing it, and not clarification must be to ask our- best way to set about a task of merely memorising it. Never solves firmly: (a) If it was Was, this sort?
mind if you are unable to stick why? (b) If Wie, how? (c) to the wording of the book, Should the W be pronounced Vas never mind if you feel that part in Wagner? (d) Or plain W as of the material contained in the in Vatercart?.. book is not much use to you. If it is not, and you are sure it is not, then do not allow it to clutter up your mind merely for the sake of passing examine- tions.
to
OF
In the first place, try to find some interest in what you have to learn; it may not always be easy, but nothing can do more shorten and simplify the actual job of getting something off by heart. In the second place, try to sort out what you that it has
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The trouble with many people! is not so much that they cantiot OPEN DIPLOMACY remember, but that they cannot forget. At any rate, they can "Open covenants of peace open- not disentangle the one little experience that ly arrived at." The first of Pre-piece of past sident Wilson's Fourteen Points. has become important from all It embodies a necessary principle: the other bits and pieces that
happened about the same time. that democracies should be aware of the nature and scope of the in
There are many people whose memories are apt to work in ternational obligations, they are
this way. Their minds seem asked to assume. It contains a
always to be cluttered up with dangerous illusion: that it is safer useless details, and, in con- and wiser to conduct international sequence, they think and act in negotiations from the housestops; efficiently; for memory, like
Otherwise wo shall be back · rather than round the table imagination, is chiefly import
where we started, Nothing could be remote from ant because of the effect it has
Temptation Resisted
fortitude, With unparalleled the truth. The transaction of on action.
and relying on nothing but ehear business between nations, especial- Ideally, I suppose we should
hereby will-power, this colunin ly in a phase of vast and intricate remember only those things
pledges itself not to utter one esettlement, is a delicate process, that we are likely to need inter some definite shape or system,
Any examination worth the single word about the punburned a sensitive process. The materials on, but this is a counsel of per- and it is not just one thing
after another.
name is concerned to find out gentleman who recently escaped begin with, wo are unstable. The flash-point faction. To
And here
how, if you are from France in mufti. is a new point if you know advance what
On The Fringe low. It is, of all political pro-never know in
Divide what you have to learn able to adapt your knowledge to blems, the least suited to oratori- problems are going to crop up into the largest possible pieces.& new set of conditions, if you A priority telegram- cal treatment, the most liable to and in the second place, we do Suppose, for example, you are can produce what is relevant at from Salford reads: "Adviso xoa-
not seem to have very much
time, in the right ders can supply Lainatic Fringes trying to learn Wordsworth's the right memories.
ready made all sizes stop best injudicious advocacy. An ineau Some things stick, others just poem Daffodils:**
And you will find, if you are marigold motif in plastic stop
goathair with zip at back trous phrase, an intemperate ad vanish without there being any I wandered lonely as a cloud really interested in your sub-price post free stop also produc
catch a obvious reason for the differ-
Thut floats | jective—interpolated t
on high o'erject, that knowledge which you ing squeaky mice leather flagpoles vales and hills, laugh or win a cheer-may have ante,. But, although the reason
have absored and made part of explosive dish-clothe stop tell When suddenly I saw a crowd, yourself will take you a great Wille come homo all is forgiven effects far different, and far may not be obvious, it is pos-
A host of golden daffodils. Į deal further, oven in an exam-Frobisher.” wider, than those the speaker had sibie in most cases to discover
If you take it line line-ination, than information which in mind when the hall resounded
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I wandered lonely as a cloud, you have studied merely because
Radar Eyes
is very hard to memorise some. I wandered, and from hills For Blind
San Francisco, July The United States Navy is
"as a
received
To Help You Forget
and
"For ecks I have been try- ing to dispose of a slice of stalo bread, originally the lower half of a fish-paste, sandwich. It was too small for a pudding. have watched it turn from grey to green, and then to purple with pinkle ghonk it into my
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whon-
local pig-bin two men spring out and lovel revolvere at me. Are they entitled to do this? It is now sprouting some species of vegetation."
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By
what I mean,
PASSPORT OFFICE
to applause or his audience rocked.
The Importance Of I wandered lonely nu a cloud'---it happens to be in the book...--- with merriment. He may deplore
Memory For Action till you have got the first line. (Broadcast in the BBC's Ser- tive impulse on which he uttered
and then go on to the second, vices Educational Broadcasts).
it is obvious the words that may be misinter
Probably you have all noticed and so on, tien preted or misunderstood. When how easy it is to remember the that you are forming a large! diplomacy is carried on from the things that interest you--they number of unnecessary connec-| platform its course is influenced seem to remain with you with-tions between the beginning and On the end of ench line: from and may even be deflected by do- out any conscious effort. mestic politics. The Minister in the other hand, you may strug-cload' you go back again to charge is tempted to submerge his graver responsibilities in his lesser thing in which you are not in-you go back to that floats, and terevied, and ind i virtually so on. So that when you try to 330 frole as a party spokesman seeking impossible to keep it in your put the whole thing together at
tuwin applause or placate his mind for more than a few days. the end, you have got to get ridį
of these unneccaasry associa-working on the possibility of and set on window-sill. Water followers. Excitement is work-
This difference is really duo tione between the beginning developing radar "vision" for the daily, Lon off all shoot longer ed up where coolness should be
to the importance of memory and the end of the same line, in blind, Vice-Admiral Ross T. c than 11 inches. If roots magnified promoted. Issues are
use large staples. Intyre, Navy aurgeon-general, told loose, where they should be softened, and for action. Other things, be-order to go on to the next one, the American Medical Association Christmas you will see precisely
ing equal, you are more likely This still holds good, even if yesterday. attitudes which should be pro-to find yourself engaged on you divide the poem into four- theoretically fensible to visional, subject to accommoda-work in which you are interest-line of sight-line seesions, or transmit electronic
mcasages to tion, became rigid, obdurate, de-ed than in any other kind; cor- any other similar units, so that, and through the eye of
a blind
DISTURBANCE fiant by the mere public statement tainly you are much more likely theoretically, the best way to person if the optic nerve is not
New York. July 4. piece of material injured, he pointed out. of them. The broad outlines of to be efficient at work in which learn any
de, be ex you are interested, chiefly be- whether it is a poem or anything Admiral Bleintyre said, is to deve from the British Passport Con-
goal of Navy researchers, The police escorted 30 youths... policy should, of pounded so that the nation may cause everything that has to do else is to try to learn the whole Admire
with such work remains in your thing in one piece.
lop that would transmit !
tral Office here yesterday after images such to the examine and approve the course
I said theoretically, because normal person sees on s
which radar noisy disturbance in taken by its Government. The mind and is there for use when
you need it.
it does not always work out in screen. These are little spots of the group entered the office in- (best place, the proper place, for
Your Interests, then, cause you break up your material fjects able to reflect radar rays.
practice, the reason being this: light which roughly delineate ob- dividually or in small numbers and demanded applications for that exposition is the debating| chambers of Parliament. And you to remember some things into reasonably sized units you An experienced radar man can visas to Palestine, to help free
and forget others. That does the exposition itself should be not mean, of course, that you when you have polished off each light spots what the zefceting
get a feeling of satisfaction tell fairly accurately from the Palestine from Britiah rule
They were not identified with measured and reflected. The should give up trying to remem- widest audience, the furthest imber things that do not interest Well, that's that, and are enblem was to produce something which support of the war of piece. You HAY to yourself, chlects are and where they are. any organization, they said, but Admiral McIntyre said the pro- had attended a mass meeting at plications, should be unceasingly you. Instead, you should face couraged to go ahead and present in the speaker's mind. For up to the fact
which would reach the optic nerve resistance being of how much master the next; whereas, if
waged by with radar rays. diplomacy exists to serve the pub easier it would be if you did
you tackle a large piece of
"Fantastic as it may sound: we Hagana, the Jewish National lic interest, not to excite, or cater take an interest.
The next point I want to make material and try to learn it all are working along those lines, he Army, was pledged."--Associat- for, public passion.
a long time haid.-Associated Press.
ed Press. la that we do not just recall the at once, then for past as it originally happened. You do not realise that you are
making progress. We remember, not because wei No doubt you are learning it are interested in the past, but the most efficient way, but If because we are going to act in after nine or ten repetitions the present and plan for the
to You seem know very little Praise our simple British wis future. We use the material
more than when you started, domi Grumble, if you will, at that is provided by the past, the chances are you will give taxation. But rejoice that Bri- but we modify and alter it in up the whole business in dis- tain's subsidies, amounting to all sorts of ways, £300,000,000 a year and onc
many people think of In any case, to learn some- cause of high taxation, are never the memory as a sort of store thing by heart is artificial. It theless keeping foodstuffs within house or filing-cabinet, in which is using memory in a way in experiences are neatly stowed whch it was not meant to he reach of every housewife's purse away in their proper places and used, and, as In America, todny, price controls remain there unaltered till we to know something, it is pro- way of getting have come off at least temporarily, reed them again. Oh, no! bably the least' efficient of all. Already, butter in the land of
All our memory images tond There are people, and I daresay plenty is double the price. Milk is to be distorted and simplified, you have met them, who tacklo rocketing. So are bread and meat. One kind of distortion which, most things in this way, parrot Except where the States have as a matter of fact, helps us to fashion, and, as a rule, if they stepped in and acted independent time we try to memoriae a tele- they do succeed in pussing ox- remember, omes into play every are siffficiently industrious, ly, rents have gune sky high phone number. Supporo
the cminations.
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BOOM OR BUST
Too
gust. "
Shrewd observers note that Ameri- number is 42876. How does it But what they have memoria-
ca is swinging into an economic strike you? Do you notice ad is never much use to them phase of "Boom or Bust." Boom, anything about the numbers?
Well,
beyond the examinations. In the based on rising prices, means hard-
first thing you fact, one of the most important ikely to do when you of the many criticisma that can ship for many. The succeeding aro
memorisa It Bust, unless wise counsels prevail, try to
is to be levelled against examinations will mean
up, probably into is that they let people obtain depression for every 42 and then 875. If you qualifications which do not re body.
split- It
are one of those ingenious people with an arithmetical turn of mind you will probably Now York, July 6.0 further. You may BAY 4 Lewis Brown, President of divided by 2 gives 2, and mul- Johns Manville company, said tiplied by 2 give 8; that gives today the lapso in price controis a relation between the first three, will have no immediate effect numbers 428 Then, 8 minis bat the company's soliing prices 1. given 7, and plus 1 gives 54 Or something like the batter The firnx, le one of the largest |
#no, much vatter how ballding material suppliers the United States Amtjobiased.
present anything important at'
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Distinction Between
Memorising And
Absorbing
Are two kinds +knowing how
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