Radio Broadcast (May-Oct 1925)

The Revolution in the Art of Teaching 479 nights to pleasant reading under the direction of a university faculty hundreds of miles away. — • THE POSSIBLE AND THE IMPOSSIBLE THE universities which are experimenting with radio as a means of instruction do so with no illusions. The standard of the work done, the knowledge of the student's abilities, the supervision of study that a campus course or an old extension course can give is indispensable for serious study of a high academic rate. It is manifestly impos sible to give university credit for radio study. As yet, no means has been found to check up on work done by radio students. A radio course can never take the place of a college year spent on the campus. Universities that are giving radio courses seem to believe that they can give the means for individual self culture to people who are interested in having new ideas, no matter where they live. There are men and women so far from the contact of intellectual forces and the opportunities of libraries and lectures, that new facts, new thoughts about their world and the things that are going on in politics, and letters and science, cannot help but be a means towards happier living in an isolated area. The radio can inspire the same interest in social and political progress that a good magazine, clearly written, can give. . Indeed, the radio can do more. . It gives the same material as the magazine does, but it gives it in a more immediate form. It is easier to listen to a man speaking. than to go BROADCASTING HEADQUARTERS OF THE UNIVERSITY And Miss Mary F. Philput, radio manager for the University of Pittsburgh