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Federal Communications Commissioner Predicts Educational TV Will Become The Schoolhouse Of The Air By Frieda Hennock Member, Federal Communications Commission Americans, bedazzled by TV’s “spec¬ taculars,” its topflight comedy and drama, its parade of sports, haven’t had much time for educational TV. Some have listened to the prophets of doom wail that educational video cannot succeed and should surrender its 258 channels or, at least, those which commercial telecasters would like to have. Don’t let such talk fool you. Time will prove that the 1952 decision by the Federal Communications Commis¬ sion to pre-empt channels for educa¬ tional telecasting was the most im¬ portant in FCC history. Educational TV has been slow in starting. But there is no stopping it. It will become bigger and better than most people now envision. It must come, because there is an expanding vacuum to be filled, as important as our need for food, clothing and shelter. The need is for aids to education in a Nation growing so fast that the supply of teachers and classrooms hasn’t been able to catch up. Until we are able to build all the classrooms needed and staff them, TV —the electronic blackboard—will be the finger in the dike. Even then its usefulness will not end. Noncommer¬ cial, educational telecasting is already demonstrating that it can help to bring better caliber instruction to the pupils in their classes and rich information to their parents at home. By 1960, top educators tell me, most state imiversities will be unable to accommodate more than half of the applicants. By 1975, they say, the phy¬ sical plants of our colleges and imi¬ versities will need as much money for expansion as has been spent on all our colleges and universities since Harvard was founded in 1636! The situation is not much brighter for the elementary and high schools. How can we best supplement our supply of classrooms and teachers? The answer is: a TV system free of commercial commitments and dedi¬ cated to teaching. In the classrooms, it will provide a tool of unusual force, which cannot but assist teachers in doing their jobs better and more effectively. With a large-screen receiver in every room, programs can be fashioned to the needs of your children from kinder¬ garten through college. These programs will be able to tap the Nation’s finest teaching personnel and material, making available what no school system could afford. To a very limited extent, the elec¬ tronic blackboard is already a reality in the cities with educational TV sta¬ tions. These stations are not yet, how¬ ever, nearly so attuned to teaching as I believe they will eventually become. Today, they devote a large portion of their time to cultural entertainment. Already, educational stations are 18