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The Educational Screeti
Official Department of
The Visual Instruction Association of America
OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE BOARD President— Ernest L. Crandall, Director of Lectures and Visual Instruction in the New
York City Schools. Vice-President— A. G. Balcom, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Newark, New Jersey. Recording Secretary— Don Carlos Ellis, formerly Director of Motion Picture Division of
United States Department of Agriculture. Trcasttrcr— George P. Foute, 71 West 23rd St., New York City. Corresponding Secretary — Rowland Rogers, Instructor in Motion Picture Production at
Columbia University. John H. Finley, of the Editorial Staff of the New York Times, formerly President of
the College of the City of New York, and Commissioner of Education of the State
of New York. George D. Strayer, Professor of Education and Director of the Division of Field Study,
Institute of Research, Teachers College, Columbia University. Susan B. Dorsey, Superintendent of Schools, Los Angeles, California. I
Olive Jones, of the N. E. A. Board of Trustees, Principal of Public School 120 and
Annexes, New York City.
This department is conducted by the Association to present items of interest on visual education to members of the Association and the public.
The Educational Screen assumes no responsibility for the views herein expressed.
'Thumb Nail Sketches'' in Visual Instruction
By Ernest L. Crandall
No. 5. Child Psychology and Visual Instruction
WE shall begin this article with a quotation from the. preceding article in this series, which appeared in the Special Summer number of the Screen. The reasons for this are two-fold. In the first place, the second paragraph of that article was so badly garbled, through a printer's error, that the writer, himself, found considerable difficulty in unraveling the tangle. In the second place, these little sketches are intended to constitute a continuous series, and the lapse of time between this article and the last instalment has been so great as to justify a little review — merely that we may get together, recall whither we were tending. The misprinted paragraph, then, should have read as follows: —
"We frequently encounter the sweeping statement that all man's knowledge come to him through the senses. To subscribe to that formula, we must consign to the same scrap
heap the visions of the Hebrew prophets, th Christian mystics, and all the poets of all th ages, together with countless cherished institt tions common to all mankind. Moreover, w should also run counter to much that is recog nized in virtually every school of psycholog: Even those who would flout Divine inspiratioi scoff at psychic phenomena and even reser the designation of the inner self as the sou fearing some spiritual connotation, are con pelled to recognize certain physiological c biological inheritances, instincts, inhibition: impulses, what not, that are quite apart froi and profoundly affect the interpretation of e> ternal stimuli. What is still more significan if we accept the postulate that all knowlcdg comes through the senses, we bind ourselve irrevocably to the proposition that truth i relative. Sensation is individual, specific, vap able. Your sensation is not my sensation. FnV