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The second question in the scholastic questionnaire was as follows : — ' Can the cinema entirely take the place of the teacher's Work and in what subjects ?
The question was obviously a delicate one, in view of the circunstances in which it was put forward. It must therefore be examined in connection with the results of the teachers' symposium, even more carefully than the answers to the first question.
To this question, 1 1 ,598 students of the various schools included in the inquiry replied, sub-divided as follows : — 7683 boys and 3915 girls.
The numerical results may be summarized in the following figures :
1 0,938 replies denied the possibility of the cinema entirely taking the place of the teacher, while 660 answers, amounting to 5,70 % answered the question affirmatively.
With regard to the sex of the children giving the answers : 7330 boys answered negatively and only 353, or 4,49 % replied in the affirmative.
Among the girls, 3608 answered in the negative and 307, or 7,84% affirmatively. The proportion, it should be noted, is markedly higher than in the case of the boys.
In the matter of age, the percentages are as follows : —
10-12 years — Boys 3.26% and Girls 8.21 % of affirmative answers 12-16 years — » 6.57 » » » 7.57 » » » »
17 and upwards — » 6.20 » » » 4.27 » » » »
While the girls give continually decreasing percentages according to age, the percentages of the boys are larger in the case of the adolescents and the youths than for the children, which suggests they have a greater importance.
With regard to large and small centres, we have the following number of affirmative replies : —
Large Centres Boys 3.21% Girls 7.35%
Small Centres » 12.27 » » 15.52 »
In both cases we see that the percentages from the small centres are disproportionately high in comparison with the large centres.
Looking at the data from the point of Parents' Occupations we find :
Workmen 5.43%
Agriculturists 4.47 »
Private Means 5.96 »
Professional Men 4.28 »
Shop-keepers 6.42 »
It is worthy of note that, apart from the professional men's class, it is the sons of workmen and peasants who are inclinced to reduce in the percentages the possibility of a substitution of the cinema for oral teaching.
The indications to be derived from the returns according to the various subjectmatters is interesting since it offers an index on the greater of lesser value of visual education.