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School Department Conducted by M. E. G. An exact science of education is made like any other science. An accumulation of the results of visual in- struction, as it is being practiced by successful teachers, forms a valuable collection of data from which to draw conclusions and state principles. Activities of Visual Education Section University of Arizona Contributed by M. P. Vosskuehler, Assistant in Educational Extension THE service we offer in our Visual Education Section is t'o act as a dis- tributing center from which films or slides are sent throughout the State upon demand from our patrons. The films we have been securing are chiefly industrial films, depicting particu- lar processes or the methods followed along certain lines of manufacture or pro- duction of utilities; although a goodly sprinkling of geographical films (visits to large cities and points of interest) have been included and have been found as popular, if not more so, than the strictly industrial subjects. Although this mater- ial is not educational in the sense that it is a visualization of some particular text, still the instructional value of the films is excellent and the quality of the material thus obtainable is remarkably good for the purposes in hand. In addition to films the Extension Di- vision has on hand 1,700 slides depicting industrial, geological, mining, welfare, agricultural and geographical subjects which are distributed over the State in the same manner as are the films. Wher- ever possible we ask to be supplied with a tentative yearly or half-yearly program so we can anticipate the particular sub- jects wanted or have sufficient time to supply adequate substitutes which will fit into the program without disrupting the central idea it should convey to the audience. Before very long we hope to develop a circuit system of distribution which will insure maximum showing of our materials. Our service extends to all educational institutions in the State as well as churches, clubs, societies and other wel- fare or discussion groups which desire our services. No charge of any sort is made either to the general public viewing the pictures or the organization securing the films from us. However, the organiza- tion showing the films is asked to pay the expressage of the parcel from and to the distributing center at the University. Ac- companying each shipment of visual educa- tion material is a report blank which must be filled in and sent t'o us following the program. This report covers the condi- tion of the material when received and sent, the number and character of the audience and other information of inter- est to ourselves or the centers from whicli we secure our films. An idea of the extent to which our service is called upon may be obtained from the figures we have for the aca- demic year 1920-21 during which time we served 31 institutions or organizations with more or less regularity, reaching on an average of 250 to 300 people at each showing of the films. This year, al- though, due to reorganization, the Visual Education Section did not begin to fund tion until November, we have alreadi reached upward of 4,000 people. 118