Article August 1, 1936 Issue

A Solid Foundation

[Written Especially for Young People]

KATE E. ANDREAE

Every student of Christian Science, whether engaged in art, or some business or profession, hopes for success in his career. Glimpsing the promise of attainment, he plods on, and finds that gradually a firm foundation is being laid on which to build his hopes and achievements. If, however, primal rules are not mastered, one will find that he cannot advance in his chosen study, for no profession can be built on the basis of ignorance or slipshod work. A good, solid foundation is a vital necessity in all branches of study.

In training for a profession or business a demonstrable understanding of the elementary rules of the given subject is all-important. If the student would one day become a successful singer, he must first patiently learn and practice the fundamentals of voice production. If this has been neglected, he cannot expect to get very far along the road to success. An engineer, to be properly trained in every department of his work, has first to learn the elementary rules of mathematics and practice them. This gradually prepares him for the more complicated problems and leads him on to the necessary efficiency in his line of endeavor.

A child was once in a class studying algebra for the first time. Fear of this new subject, as well as the suggestion that she was slow in grasping what the teacher said, seemed to paralyze her capacities. After a demonstration on the blackboard of the first simple problem, the children were asked to write down in their notebooks what they had been taught. Thirty bright and intelligent children quickly responded. One frightened little girl, however, who had not in the least grasped the first rule, wrote down from memory the figures she had seen on the blackboard.

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