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Mossend Primary School, Lanarkshire.

On Friday, 28 November 2008, I was at Mossend Primary School.  This is the school my sisters and I attended 55 years ago and it was wonderful to be invited back to talk to the staff and pupils about business.  This week is Enterprise Week so the pupils had researched great inventors and gave a series of presentation with wonderfully prepared colour posters on the life and work of Sir Robert Watson-Watt, James Young Simpson, James Goodfellow, Charles Macintosh, Sir Alexander Fleming, John Boyd Dunlop, William Murdoch, Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie Baird, James watt and Kirkpatrick Macmillan.  Now, the observant reader will have noticed that these were all Scottish and the fact that this weekend is St Andrew's day gave an extra significance to the life story of these great inventors.  My talk on the development of my career and creation of daysoft contact lenses hardly came up to the shoulders of these world famous names but I had something of an edge over them in one respect ... I am still alive and have a little time to do some catch-up!

Among the 300 children quietly sitting on the hall floor I am convinced there will be the inventors of tomorrow and if my talk has encouraged just one of them to "dream of better and better ways to do things" I will have made a small contribution to the economics development of our great country.

The dedication of the Enterprise Teacher, Jean Murray, and the Head Teacher, Sharon McPherson, gave me great confidence that the pupils leaving my 'old' school, Mossend Primary, will have the education and the ambition to do great things for themselves and for others in the proud tradition of the inventors whose life stories they so ably presented today.  Many thanks for inviting me and best wishes to the inventors of tomorrow.

Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 at 12:04PM by Registered CommenterRon Hamilton | Comments2 Comments

Reader Comments (2)

I read about Ron's visit to Mossend Primary school in the local paper, Bellshill Speaker.It was very kind of Ron to take time out and visit his old primary school and helped encourage the potentail inventers and entrepreneur's of tomorrow.

Well Done and thank you.
December 4, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterABDUL MAJID
Thank you also for responding. It was a real thrill for me and just great to have the chance to speak to so many polite and keen children. I did not do well at school and, but for the help of my sisters, I would have disappeared without trace so I was able to encourage the children to make every lesson count and not to give up. Regards Ron
December 8, 2008 | Registered CommenterRon Hamilton

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