Visual Education (Jan 1923-Dec 1924)

Dd Visual Education cedure than learning the names of all the bones in the body. Beginning Science on the Screen Last spring I saw a motion picture of elementary bacteriology suitable for use in the upper grades. It was utterly fascinating, and I would stake a large fortune that pupils who would either slumber or struggle through a lesson on yeasts, moulds and kindred vague growths, will never forget what they saw on the screen. Also, without being in any way unduly morbid, the film showed something of the universal prevalence, beneficial and otherwise, of these tiny plants. There will be a real reason for washing hands, in the future, and an intelligent interest in home prophylaxis ! It may not last — we cannot hope too much — but it is a gorgeous opportunity to win recruits for cleanliness ! The in wisest child town window opens ide, len she goes to sd at night outdoor air's inside. I slept hours with windows open. 1st Week 2d Week Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. * Children from 7 to 1 0 years should sleep 1 1 hours; children from 1 0 to 13 years should sleep 1 0 hours. A Projector for Every School I mention this merely as an example of what the moving picture can do in education. It has already been recognized as of tremendous value, as it has been condemned as a power for evil. But until recently it has not been much considered as a means of education ' in the schools. I look forward to a day when every school shall have its own moving picture machine, with perhaps a lending library of films to go the rounds. Then, when our children are also graded according to mental fitness, and we utilize, with the greatest intelligence and maximum co operation of the children themselves, every channel of education, the new generation may well smile tolerantly upon us when we mutter, "Schools were never like that in our day !" And they, too, I think, will say, "Thank God for the change !" Seeing the World ONE day a stranger in our town Came in to talk with Hiram Brown About a man called Windy Joe, Who ran a store three doors below. He said, "How is it that man knows What every country makes or grows? He surely must have read a lot, Or else he's been right on the spot!" "What makes you think old Windy Joe Has roamed this big world to and fro? Does he look like a millionaire In that old coat and tousled hair?" "Well, no, of course; but you must own He knows the earth from zone to zone; From Egypt's sands to Russian snow, And where the big bananas grow. "From Babylon to Zanzibar — Of wonders near, of wonders far; Of mighty wars that shook the world As monarchs from their thrones were hurled. I've never met a man like him. Who's seen creation to the rim; To see so much, it seems to me, He must have sailed on every sea!" "Say, stranger, if you want to know The truth about old Windy Joe — Why, all the world that he has seen Was shown right here upon the screen. Each evening when he has a dime (You know Joe's always long on time), He rambles to the movie show And sees those wonders come and go. "Joe says: 'A man don't hev to roam, Nor sail ten thousand miles uv foam; Why should I travel o'er the sea, When movies bring the world to me? It saves me time 'n lots uv cash, I'm sure my ship ain't goin' to smash, 'N when I leave the picture show, By heck, I'm right to home, yuh know!' The stranger, looking cheap as sin, Said, "Well, that rascal took me in! I've never noticed how, before, The world is brought right to our door." Yes, wonders rare of every clime And all the great events of time, Are brought to folks of slender means Today upon the movie screens. —HENRY B. RUTLEDGE.