Visual Education (Jan 1923-Dec 1924)

February, 1923 47 sUJinmiitiHiiitHtiiHJMimtiiintmmiiiii iiiuiimiiHiiiimmiiiimiu i iiinm immi >iiiNmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmim iltmili llllltlUHHlliHttti iiiiniii iiiii.iii iiiimiiHiimiMiiimimimillllli lllllllllllltlllilllllHIl^: What the "World's Thinkers Say of the "Eye -Gate" to Knowledge And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing All the world o'er. — PLAUTUS: Truculentus. Cultivate an interest in pictures. It is a part of education always within your reach. —SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Knowing is seeing. . . . Until we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it with our own understandings, we are as much in the dark and as void of knowledge as before. —JOHN LOCKE: The Conduct of Understanding. It may be observed that many of our children grow weary of their books, because they are overfilled with things which have to be explained by the help of words. The pupils, and often the teachers themselves, know next to nothing about the things. — COMENIUS. {Written in 1655.) Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter and equals the faculty of spirit. —STERNE. All man's education, all his thoughts and sentiments, are really formed from pictures. Pictures are much more powerful than writing or speech. Every one can see a picture and interpret it in his way; it is as irresistible as example. The motion picture is life, magnified and extending over a limitless field ; it is the accumulated example and experience of thirty men and thirty years of life, concentrated in a single moment. —MAETERLINCK. A picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. —BEN JONSON. A thing when heard, remember, strikes less keen On the spectator's mind than when 'tis seen. —HORACE: <De Arte Poetica. It is wonderful indeed to consider how many objects the eye is fitted to take in at once, and successively in an instant, and at the same time to make a judgment of their position, figure and color. —STEELE. **€>^ This picture tells me in an instant what would be spread over ten printed pages. — TURGENEV. The man in Russia, or in Japan, or the farthest isles, learns through the eye what the customs of life are in the civilized West. The motion picture teaches men as books never could do, even if they could read them. —SIR GILBERT PARKER. e*3CW I ask for half a dozen projectors or so in every school and for a well-stocked storehouse of films. The possibilities of certain branches of teaching have been altogether revolutionized by the cinematograph. . . . All the demonstration experiments that science teachers will require in the future can be performed once for all — before a cinematograph. They can be done finally; they need never be done again. You can get the best and most dexterous teacher in the world; he can do what has to be done with the best apparatus, in the best light. Anything that is very minute or subtle you can magnify, or repeat from another point of view. Anything that is intricate you can record with extreme slowness. You can show the facts a mile off or six inches off. — H. G. WELLS. ~ii!i!!!iiiiiiiHiimiiiimi iniiimiiiiimiin limn mimmmimiiiimmm iiiiHmiluiiniiimiiiuiii i 'iimniiiiiiiiimiu urn II .LMMiini mi urn imnimiiiini iiiiiiiiimmmiiiiiiimmiiiimim'iiiiimiimi!iii!)mmimmi;uT=