Education by Visualization (1919)

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Education Without Effort :$*=* THE PATHESCOPE IN THE CLASS-ROOM Studying "Physical Movements Analyzed." Motion Pictures in the Schools Every teacher who reads these words has probably said after seeing some remarkably interesting or instructive Motion Picture : "If we could only get the [Motion Picture Machine into the School Room and make it serve our purpose, what wonders we could accomplish with it ! How it would interest the children in many of the littleunderstood subjects that cannot be easily described in print or shown in an illustration, but can be clearly and simply shown in a Motion Picture, from which they are instantly grasped and never forgotten by the interested scholar." No other medium can convey an intelligent conception of the "Within the next decade the Moving Picture will be the indispensable adjunct of every teacher. As the attention and interest of educators are more and more drawn to its merits, the future usefulness of the educational cinematograph bids fair to surpass the predictions of its most sanguine advocates."— From Report of the U. S. Department of Education.