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Foreword 5
it, will outstrip most of its predecessors in its total contribution to the great work of American education.
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"Visual Education," therefore, enters the field of educational magazines with the solemn resolution to do its utmost toward the extension of all existing activities along the line of visual instruction. It will seek also to promote by every appropriate means the sane and scholarly development of the new resources put within our reach by the Motion Picture.
As a necessary initial step to these ends, Visual Education offers itself as a clearing-house for ideas on this great subject, which will not be silenced much longer. The country is seething with the vague aspirations or maudlin enthusiasms of well-intentioned promoters of screen education, and with the anxious misgivings or virulent antagonisms of teachers who fear the invasion of commercial crudeness. It is time that serious men became articulate. Somewhere amid it all there is truth which must appear in due time. Visual Education aims to find and publish it, in all its forms, from all fruitful sources, whether it come from babes or sages. We believe it will come from both.
For the commercial "Movies," the pioneer days are passed. For the educational picture they are just beginning and it is time for the academic pioneers to strike the trail. We shall print the abstractions of scholarly research and the concrete practice of the classroom; the untested theories of our universities and the convictions built on experience in the grades; the glowing arguments of friends and the acid criticisms of enemies. All material will be welcomed, provided always that the motive and source are serious and sincere, trustworthy, and authoritative, and that all authors accept full responsibility for their statements. On such a foundation the investigation will take on definiteness. Ideas will be crystallized, precise aims formulated, real and fictitious values distinguished, and progress toward real conclusions will begin.
Further, we plan to collect and present, as rapidly as is consistent with accuracy, data from all sources bearing upon this question. Beginning with the February number, Visual Education will supply monthly reference lists of current magazine articles with brief indications of the nature and contents of each. Partial reprints of important material will be given frequently. Short reviews of significant new books as they appear, together with lists and summaries of volumes previously written on the subject, will constitute a department by itself. Ultimately this Bibliography will cover the entire literature of the subject. It will provide material for exhaustive study of the general topic of Visual Education, and incidentally will afford a basis for estimating the total serious achievement of the Motion Picture since its inception.
A separate department is planned for Correspondents, which will undertake to print significant letters received during the month and give general or specific answers to all communications. Readers are urged to take advantage of the opportunity thus afforded for establishing and maintaining intimate contact with this magazine and thereby with the whole movement. If we are to achieve concerted action, it is important that the whole rank and file of educators