Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

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editorial Space Age Perspective Paul C. Reed Probably the biggest challenge that we face these days is the need to try to adjust thinking and actions to a world and universe that is daily becoming more unlike anything ever known before. And the worst of it is, the more adult a person is, the more difficult it is to do. Somebody said that an adult is a person who goes around with his memories. His thoughts are anchored in the past, and his judgments and planning are based upon his experience. Conventionally we've thought of this as wisdom. But maybe it isn't. Maybe if we are to gain perspective that will fit the space age, and that will enable us to meet the accelerating challenges of tomorrow, we will have to concentrate our thoughts and plans on the future. This takes mighty effort. It isn't easy to forget the past in favor of the future. But that's what space age perspective is. Let me try to be quite specific to our problems. Our constant task is to help people who have information and ideas to communicate these to other people effectively. In your approach, and in your planning are you anchored to the past or do you have space age perspective? How limited are your horizons? Do you assure that a school is pretty well equipped audiovisually if it has a couple motion picture and filmstrip projectors, an overhead, two radios, and a tv set? Or do you have the kind of spaace age perspective that makes you nervously unsatisfied until there is sufficient equipment so that every teacher can make use of whatever audiovisuals he needs whenever he needs them? This might even mean an inventory in the order of an overhead projector and a television receiver for every single classroom. Past experience is no good as a base for planning audiovisual programs for the space age. Appropriations and goals have been woefully inadequate. We must plan on appropriations for education and communication hardly dreamed of in the past. We can no longer be restrained to last year's budget to meet today's challenge. Two tenths of one per cent of the nation's total school budget for audiovisual equipment and materials is so ridiculously low it is a national shame. A nation that proudly affords the astronomical costs of continuous communication with one great man orbiting the earth at seventeen thousand miles per hour surely can willingly afford whatever it costs to help its teachers communicate effectively with all the kids in our classrooms. The editor of another journal' has said it better than I can, so I endorse and quote with our italics his words: "An exploding population, technology, and culture indicate that the time has come for a degree of boldness not hitherto a part of our approach." 'H. Walter Shaw, in Technical Education News. Post Script; Just in case you noticed that the initial letters in the title of this editorial spell a common word, you should know that we too noticed it. But don't forget, there's more than one meaning for the word "sap." Sap is "a vital juice; essential to life, healtli, or vigor." "Space Age Perspective" may also be essential to our futures in the audiovisual business and profession. PCR Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — July, 1962 359