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MUSEUMS AND THE VISUAL IDEA
perhaps never to return again.
"The great value of the portable museum as I see it," says Dr. Simms, "is that it is where teachers and students want it when they need it. However superior the main museum in the size and variety of its collections, it is too far away to serve the school directly in connection with the everyday routine of the classroom. Its spirit of helpfulness needs to be interpreted by the modest but ^____ accessible portable exhibits. They are, so to speak, its traveling representatives.
"In the latest extension of the idea of visual education— that is, the use of motion pictures in teaching — there is an exactly parallel problem to solve. The school auditorium, though it be equipped with a motion picture machine of the very latest improved theater type, is too detached from the individual recitation to be practical in making it possible for the school to realize the full benefits that visual education offers."
What is needed to make motion picture education 100 per cent effective, he maintains, is not only films that fit the curriculum, but projectors that can be operated right in the schoolroom. A portable machine enables the teacher to achieve real results with the use of text films. She can call the film into service in the very middle of a recitation, employ it with equal effectiveness to arouse interest in
a new lesson subject, or let it work the modern miracle of putting life, vitality and honest interest into a review — ancient bugaboo of teachers and pupils alike. With every child in his own seat, with nothing to distract attention from the lesson on the screen, the best results are possible from such applications of the visual idea in teaching.
"Accessibility is the secret of the success and usefulness of portable
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LARGE -MOUTHED BLACK BASS
An example of the unusual character of the fish exhibits figuring in the collection. Says the label: "The young bass grows very rapidly. Under favorable conditions it will attain a length of about 6 inches at the end of a year. Fishermen tempt it with minnows and other live bait, like grasshoppers, frogs and helgramites, as well as by artificial bait. As its flesh is inferior in flavor only to that of the trout and the whitefish, it naturally has a considerable value on the market. The importance of this fish, however, is not due to its food value, but rather to its wary and unyielding nature, which makes its capture so difficult and exciting to the fisherman. It ranks among the most important game fishes in America."
museums — portable motion picture projectors — portable anything. It is having the thing we need right on the spot at the instant we need it that enables us to capture the 'psychological moment' and make it yield up its treasure."
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