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The Educational Side — of Broadcasting —
By LYMAN BRYSON
Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; Chairman of Columbia Broadcasting System Adult Educational Board
The radio is like the newspaper, the magazine, the book, and the theatre in being educational in spite of itself. Whatever is broadcast will have some effect on the thinking of whoever listens and will direct his emotions in good ways or bad.
Professional education has long ago adjusted itself to most of these forms of mass communication. The radio is more dangerous and can possibly be more beneficial than most of the other general educational influences. We are having a hard time trying to decide what to do with it.
EDUCATION BY LOCAL STATIONS
There are three obvious ways in which we can make educational use of broadcasting. One is to take broadcasting directly into the schools. This is probably best done by local stations under local direction except for some programs such as those of Walter Damrosch and the American School of the Air. Systematic classroom instruction cannot be put on a national network. The reasons against it are partly educational, partly technical. A large city, however, can carry on part of its classroom work
by using master teachers for supplementary instruction.
SUSTAINING PROGRAMS
A second phase is the use of music, drama, editorial discussion of current events, open forums such as the Town Meeting of the Air, and all other "serious" programs for the general enlightenment and cultural enrichment of the listeners' lives. I believe that the broadcasting companies have achieved much more in this field than they have been generally given credit for. Doubtless too
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