Godfrey Thomson

Godfrey Thomson Trust Lecture 2015:
Bringing Intelligence To Life: Godfrey Thomson's Legacy by Professor Ian Deary
Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh & Director of the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology.
Hear about Godfrey Thomson from Ian an earlier occasion

Excellent talk on the impact of Godfrey Thomson's Moray House Tests  that surveyed all children aged 11 in 1932 with follow up for those surviving some 70+ years later; and repeated for another cohort in 1947 (The 1936 Lothian Birth Cohort) . 



Unprecedented data and analysis that has wide impications on making sense of cognitive ability as it relates to lifestyles, health and life expectancy.


This is a slide of Thomson's handwritten lecture notes as he speaks to teacher trainees at Moray House back in the 40s.  Gist of it is ...

do not rest on your oars ...

go on studying ...

there is no greater pleasure than comes from work ...

with mastery, won in most cases before thirty, comes leisure which can be truly enjoyed, not leisure stolen from duty.


I think he enjoyed his work and study!