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b) As an instrument of teaching.
Here the replies to the Institute's question are very much more varied. Very few are frankly unfavourable (these are quoted below); nearly all are favourable and contain some interesting observations:
" As an instrument of teaching, science and culture, the cinema is a wonderfully effective means of developing the minds of the young, who in their innate desire to know everything, are incessantly worrying their parents and teachers and refuse to be content with the evasive and often incorrect replies given to keep them quiet. The cinema is an ever-flowing stream in which children can assuage their thirst for knowledge ".
" The importance of the cinema is undeniable; besides amusing and stimulating the mind, it can greatly enrich it with a wealth of useful information. The clear and accurate vision of places and incidents known, if at all, only vaguely and confusedly, makes a strong impression upon the mind. What is once apprehended in this way, is remembered and thus increases the sum total of culture ".
" As regards teaching, nothing enters and fixes itself in the mind so readily and firmly as that which we perceive with the keenest of our senses, the eye. In science the old-time mural diagrams shown over and over again in the same monotonous position are replaced by a series of pictures which reproduce the phenomenon in different phases. In the cultural sphere everybody's desire for travel exceeds his opportunities, and films can give us all the advantages and cultural benefits of travel itself ".
" The cinema is of utility when employed in teaching, science or culture, on two conditions:
i) The maker of the films, he who selects the subject-matter and the time of projection must be equal to his task; he must have an understanding of nature and science he must have prepared his matter in the class-room and have completed it in the laboratory, the museum or botanical gardens. As an artist, he should be acutely sensitive to the relations between man and nature. Skilled in the technique of the cinema, he should be able to combine sound and agreeable instruction with clear and comprehensible scientific ideas.
2) The pupil-spectators must be furnished with important photographic extracts from the film by which they can recapture what the film has shown them ".
" Facts and phenomena seen on the screen impress themselves upon the growing mind more easily and durably than any book ".
" School films, the educational value of which is acknowledged by the majority of parents and teachers, have gradually weaned children from the commercial cinema ".
" The State school text-book must be supplemented by the State school cinema to provide rational illustration of the various subjects in the syllabus ".
" Nothing can exceed the value of the cinema as an aid in teaching. Scientific films greatly help the teacher and the subjects dealt with make a deeper impression on the hearer. Excellent and clear as the teacher's lesson may be, it requires to be supplemented by the cinema. During lessons a pupil often pays more attention to what the teacher is doing than to what he is saying.