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Visiting the Little Red Schoolhouse
As Viewed by Elbert Hahng
TUST PICTURE 200,000 young men ' and women students assembled in one gigantic class room. A mighty giant stands atop a 653'oot rostrum and in a mighty voice tronger than the winds themoelves presents sugar-coated gems of knowledge to his attentive pupils. Compare this mythical scene with the little red school house of yesterday where grandpop learned his three R's to the tune of a hickory stick.
Now — getting down to brass tacks, or is it chalk and blackboards, the "professor's" mind wanders, our analogy is drown between the Texas School of the Air, its 4,000 participating schools, the 653-foot WBAP-WFAA antenna tower and yesterday's methods of education.
The Texas School of the Air opened its doors on February 4, 1940 and its programs have since been used by an ever-increasing number of Texas schools as a supplementary aid to learning, with ever-growing satisfaction tc both teachers and pupils. During this same period, administrators of all types of schools, and the public in general, have accepted radio as an important new instrumentality for public education in Texas.
Since the advent of radio more than two decades ago, educators have dreamed of the time when this new marvel of communication could be put into effective use in the classrooms and homes of our nation for educational purposes. While listened to in homes and places of business in increasing hours for almost a generation now, radio has slowly found its place in the school as a part of the daily curriculum. This has been due primarily to lack of understanding of radio as a tool of education, to a paucity of suitable educational radio programs, and to very limited radio equipment in the schools.
The organization of the Texas School of the Air marks the in
RADIO VARIETIES — FEBRUARY
A typical Texas School of the Air cast is seen before the microphone of Station WBAP, Fort Worth. Note the various ages represented to secure voice variations for the particular project being offered.
L. A. WOODS, State Superintendent of Education for Texas.
auguration of a new era in public education in Texas. It is a conscious effort on the part of the State Department of Education and associated institutions to harness and use radio in the interest of a broader and better educational program. Through the facilities of the Texas School of the Air, specially prepared programs, planned and produced by competent persons to enrich and vitalize classroom instructions, are now available to the majority of Texas schools. Through this new
JOHN W. GUNSTREAM, Texas School of the Air Director
instrumentality children can listen, as a part of the school curriculum, to talks by authorities in many fields of human endeavor, to great music and drama, and to interest compelling presentations of study materials which are ordinarily considered dry and uninteresting. Children who are denied this opportunity of listening to these programs because of an inflexible class schedule or because of lack of school radios, are missing some real education — of the easy-to-take variety.
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