FOREWORD
I want to tell you about Student ........................... He wrote me sometime ago saying that he had completed something like fifteen lessons in the course and was still unable to repair receivers satisfactorily. He asked me to advise him where his trouble lay.
I devoted practically one whole morning to his problem, for if a student comes to me for advice as to his progress, I certainly want to give him all the help I can.
To make a long story short, I looked up his record and went over all his correspondence with the Institute and here is what I found--when this student was studying simple receiving circuits, he sent in one letter after another to the institute, requesting information on transmitting apparatus, television apparatus, everything in fact except simple receiving circuits. And that’s the way it was all through his course--his mind was way ahead of his work--his head was in the clouds most of the time.
Now you know as well as I do what his trouble was--he wasn’t digging into his lessons in the proper spirit. To get the benefit of each lesson, the student must exhaust the possibilities in that lesson and he must devote all his energies to that one lesson. Of course questions arise in your mind, many of which anticipate subjects which will be taken up in later lessons and it is a great temptation to write to me for answers to these questions. Personally, I like to answer questions of any sort and I used to feel that if a student asked rather advanced questions that it showed real interest in Radio. But I have been convinced that a man learning Radio in his spare time must put everything out of his mind, as far as Radio is concerned, but the lesson he is working on at the time.
Keep your feet on the ground. Study each lesson thoroughly, understand it thoroughly. If there are any questions on the lesson that you can’t answer for yourself no matter how hard you try, then write to me and I’ll be glad to help you. As for related questions or advanced questions, save them. They will be answered in later texts just when that particular information will be of most value to you.
Do each day’s work thoroughly--leave tomorrow’s work for tomorrow.
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