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Visual Education
in the hands of a competent barber. The work is done with thoroughness, neatness and dispatch. The pupil's mental stubble is all cleared away; the most remote corners are swept clean of misconception and inapprehension.
WHERE VISUAL AIDS ARE INDISPENSABLE
Slides and movies are especially valuable in what may be called "outdoor" subjects, such as geography, forestry, agriculture. One of the first and most important lessons in forestry is the necessity of fire protection. Fire is the forester's worst enemy, an enemy so fierce and ubiquitous as constantly to threaten the absolute ruin of the work of generations of foresters. Aside from getting him on the fire line, filling his lungs with the stinging smoke, and wearing the flesh off his bones in week-long, night-and-day battles with the enemy, what better way is there of
bringing home this fact to the forest school student than the motion picture ? Not only is the basic principle that fire protection comes first vividly impressed upon the student's mind, but there are brought before his eyes modern methods of preventing and fighting fire, with all the details of mobilization of crews, supply service, the strategy of fire line location, and hundreds of other things vital to a forester's education.
To be sure, the film has to be followed by careful, detailed study of the various branches of the work; but just as in the study of warfare, pictures can be used to show actual conditions on the battlefield, so they can be used in forestry teaching to show actual conditions in fighting bona-fide fires. To the student who has seen such a picture, showing perhaps a trainload of men being rushed to the fire lines, fed and sheltered, and brought up in relays to the fight, the study of methods of supply
GOOD LUMBERING
This photograph and the one opposite are striking examples of the advantage of the picture in
teaching methods of handling timber. On the one hand, low stumps — brush piled for burning
in the wet season — good seed trees left for another crop