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VISUAL EDUCATION
A National Organ of the New Movement in American Education
Nelson L. Greene, Editor
Published every month except July and August Copyright, May, 1920, by the Society for Visual Education, Inc.
Volume I MAY, 1920 Number 3
Ideals and Activities of the Society
The Society for Visual Education was founded for the fulfillment of an ideal, and whatever it may accomplish will be a consequence of that ideal. That ideal is simply to make the next generation and all succeeding generations of American citizens much better than the present generation — better in their knowledge of their own country and its history; better in their understanding of and faith in its institutions; better in their preparation for and willingness to do useful work in the world; better in their mind, physique, and health; in short, better in all those respects which are essential for the establishing of prosperous and happy homes in a great free country. The whole organization of the Society for Visual Education and all its policies have been formulated for the accomplishment of these ideals.
Fortunately the ideal of the Society is not the ideal of a single person, or of a few persons; it is the ideal of hundreds of thousands. Witness the names of those who are identified with the Society and are giving it the benefit of their counsels and assistance. The ideal of the Society did not originate in the mind of a single person. Even the main features of its policies, which are all for the purpose of accomplishing its ideal, occurred almost simultaneously to many. All this is interpreted as meaning, first, that the ideal of the Society is worthy and, secondly, that the plans of the Society are sound.
What are the plans of the Society? To seize on and to put into use the most important means, heretofore neglected, of accomplishing its ideal. The most important single means is the use of motion pictures. For whom are they being prepared? So far as the coming school year is concerned, for the millions who are in grades five to nine of the elementary schools, and who will not for the most part go beyond the elementary schools. They will make up the bulk of the population of the next generation, and they are much more in need of assistance than the relatively small number who will go on to high school and college. On what subjects are films being produced? On those which are most important for preparing the children of today to become useful citizens tomorrow. They are American History, Geography, Citizenship, and Health and Sanitation.