Visual Education (Jan-Nov 1920)

Record Details:

Title:
Visual Education
Date:
Jan-Nov 1920
Publisher:
Society for Visual Education, inc.
Volume:
Visual Education (Jan-Nov 1920)
Leaf #:
000123
Language:
English
Collection:
Non-Theatrical Film
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 28, 2023
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Some of the Pitfalls 27 but the child knows that Washington lived a century and a half ago, while the picture was made yesterday. He probably feels as sure that the picture was taken in Hollywood instead of at Valley Forge. With this inevitable unbelief at the root of his lesson, it will be difficult to inspire faith in the accuracy of the whole. Complete sincerity must lie at the basis of the educational motion picture; and its basic problem will be to convince the child of that fact. To compel attention and belief, to be stimulating without being sensational, to impart knowledge and arouse the thirst for knowledge — here is no petty task. This has been no more than a brief summary of a few of the obstacles that must be overcome if education by means of the motion picture is to be really successful, if it is to be anything more than just another way of getting through the dull hours custom decrees teacher and pupil should spend together. One hopes the school of the future, the teacher of the future, the pupil of the future, may all have a higher ideal than this; and that the motion picture, surmounting these and other hazards, may be a powerful factor in bringing about this condition. Flora Warren Seymour. Attorney-at-Law , Corresponding Secretary of the National Federation of College Women.