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Visual Education
VISUALIZING THE ADVANTAGES OF A KNOWLEDGE OF LATIN
Part of an exhibit on "Why Study Latin," which the Library has lent to countless high schools, colleges and libraries. The display cards, made at the Library by young girls working under the instruction of Director Dana and his assistants, are admirable examples of the printing art. Such amateur work sets a standard which raises the whole tone of a city's printing.
The teachers had no hand in it. The members of the fourth squad, representing Dr. Kane, were in great anguish : their illustrations were all hand-drawn charts and amateur reproductions.
Such activities, under various incitements, were carried on in several parts of the country — as they are today.
Superintendent Powell lost his position as a result of his temerity in doing something new, and a strong reaction wiped out the memory of his methods. Meanwhile I began the work in Summit, New Jersey, and today teachers who learned from me are pursuing Powellian methods in other parts of the country. Educational reforms are thus intermittent and sporadic, chiefly because good teaching is constantly submerged by politics. Museums are better off in this respect. They are little disturbed by politics, and they accumulate things, which are more stable than methods.
The Newark Library "Boils Over"
When I took a supervising position in the schools of Newark, about 1902, I found J. C. Dana directing the Public Library. There were spots in the Newark schools where objective work and visual materials were used, but I had learned, from Mr. Powell's fate, to
make myself felt chiefly in improved results in the three R's ; hence I merely helped spread the spots and went on no crusade.
But there was J. C. Dana. There was no room for us supervisors at Education Headquarters ; so they borrowed for us a fourth-story
room in the Library. And there Ave found steam escaping which no weight upon the safety valve could suppress. Some people, undertaking a job, use the energy created by explosions of nitrogenous compounds within them, by "chasing themselves." The phenomenon is common among women of fashion and domestic dogs. Some people express themselves in a restricted held by dividing up their work and multiplying details. Some school principals do it, and many housewives who live in apartments. What would you? If you are a replica of a grandmother who bore fourteen children and did her own cooking, washing, ironing, sewing, housework, dairy work and chicken-raising, what are you going to do with husband away for lunch, two children at college, hot water galore, laundry done out, and ready-made dresses so cheap and stylish? You divide and subdivide what is left and turn it all into a ritual. You cut your half-worn
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PICTURES ON ARCHITECTURE, AGRICULTURE AND CHRISTMAS
A few of the 500,000 pictures in the Picture Collection, lent at the rate of 150,000 a year. The calls from school teachers average 70 per cent. The other 30 per cent of the loans are made to designers, interior decorators, costume makers, commercial artists, makers of stage settings, club women, lecturers, department stores, architects, ^motion-picture producers, and other folks who have learned the secret of using "reference pictures" as well as reference books.