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jrHE EDUCATIONAL SCREEN Editorial Section A)L, I September, 1922 No. 7 SEPTEMBER has come again—the month that sees the start in mo- tion of our vast educational machine for its nine months' run. It is a momentous time, this, when a nation hands over to a half mil- ion teachers and executives the chief responsibility for the training of its 'oung minds. Certainly this half million should represent the absolute naximum in fitness and capacity for teaching to be found among the whole nmdred and ten millions. Whether this be the case or not, the intellect- lal development of the nation's youth during the present school year—for he best or for something less than the best—lies mainly in the hands of hese teachers. It is they who must guide the great machine and furnish he subtle force of personality to vitalize its workings. In the complex, louble process of handing on the intellectual heritage of the world to the ■coming generation and of training that generation to react upon and mplify that heritage, the teacher is inevitably the supreme factor. For it is fundamentally a human process, this mighty transfer of in- angible property from adult to adolescent mind, and must be achieved >rimarily through human agency. Yet this human process enlists all other >rocesses and aids. The innumerable aids developed through centuries )f educational advance—the books and buildings, the museum and lab- oratory, the gymnasium and playground—-are all but devices to extend and nagnify the power of the teacher. Far from supplanting the teacher, the multiplication of these devices merely intensifies the need for great teach 2rs who can bring forth ever finer results from the finer facilities. The first quarter of the twentieth century promises to be marked in educational history as the time when educators more or less suddenly iwoke to the broad field of visual aids in instruction. Hundreds of teach- ers know now, from personal experience, the trememdous educational jvalue of the screen. Tens of thousands of teachers need to know it. They will. The fact is spreading fast in educational ranks. Stereopticon slides by thousands will have done a mighty work in American classrooms by next June. Films by the dozen—for these are the baby days of educa- tional films—will have done their smaller part equally well. But no school need wait for the films—the slides are here. 209