ABSTRACT
Compton, Karl Taylor We cannot get far by trying to impose an engineering education, however excellent it may be, on a young man of mediocre ability or one temperamentally unfitted for technical or administrative work. The idea reminds me of an experience which my sister had . . . in India. She had engaged a native electrician to install some new fixtures in her house, but he seemed particularly stupid and kept coming to her for instructions. Finally, in exasperation she said to him: “Why do you come asking questions all the time? Why don’t you use your common sense?” “Madam,” he replied gravely, “common sense is a rare gift of God. I have only a technical education.”
