Visual Education (Jan 1923-Dec 1924)

November, 1924 PICTURED LIFE FOR HOME, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY 3.79 Building For Business At College IN THIS century there is more honor in business — and more strict acconuting — than ever before. But most of our youth who go on into colleges and universities come forth to follow a "profession." And of those who do turn to plain business, most are not so well prepared as they might have been. At Antioch College* business is looked upon as one of the great professions. We quote freely from the Antioch Business Code. Sound business is service which benefits all parties concerned. Today the dominant current of human interest runs to commerce and industry. The finest ethical standards must apply if business is to make its possible contribution to human dignity and welfare. It is the men and women who are in business who determine the moral standards of business. For fine ideals best to affect business practice, they must be combined with business skill and judgment. The aim of Antioch is to develop in her students a high degree of ability in business management. This is not in conflict with sound ethical principles, but the best way to make them succeed in practice. When employees do not find in employers the leadership they need, but are treated as cheap tools — to be purchased at as low a price as possible, used hard, and thrown away — their hurt is often beyond recovery. It becomes a deep industrial discontent. Antioch leaders believe that its cause can be removed not by economic devices but by the regaining of honestly earned mutual respect, confidence and good will. They therefore try to define what is the function of business in modern life; to narrow the gap between theory and practice by developing in the students an honest desire to work out sound business principles and an honest effort to put them into practice ; and to har *Yellow Springs, Ohio. monize the seemingly conflictingdemands of the ideal and the practical. Antioch trains her students with visual and practical aids as well as with books. Alternating five weeks in school and five weeks at work with some of the hundreds of cooperating business and industrial firms, is the rule. In six years of this sort of training the student not only has a liberal college education but has acquired also a vocational training and an apprenticeship to practical life. Administrative ability is emphasized. The vocational courses and the actual daily work during the alternating five week shifts give the students a detailed knowledge of the work they have chosen which not only serves as a background for their business careers, but can be utilized time and again in the instruction of others or the improvement of processes. What Antioch collegians see and do is counted upon as much as, or more than, what they hear and read, to make them sound and honest Americans, viewing business as a profession— whether they are employers or employed — and willing always to fight hard and squarely for economy of production and distribution, for equitable relations of management, employees and capital, and for genuine service to the public. The Antiochan is expected to learn from experience what others are "up against," make his choice of a vocation with his eyes open, and then render his business service always in the spirit of making it his best possible contribution to human well-being. The work of such a college is a distinct asset to the nation. A Live Museum A Force in Education A common idea with most people is that the exhibits in a museum are permanent and unchanging, and that if you have once visited the institution there is no need to go back again. The new collections installed during the past year by Field Museum of Natural History, disprove this idea, for each department has added new exhibits to the large collections already installed. A list of these new exhibits reads much like a chapter from Gulliver's Travels, for there are actor's costumes from Peking, gems and jewels from South America, pewter ware from Europe, a ghost fox from Brazil, savage dance masks, deep sea fish and tropic plants made from glass and wax. These are but a few of the exhibits that have been added and many others are being constantly installed. If you want to find out the manner in which other people dress and learn of their strange animals, birds, plants and minerals, it would be well worth your time when in Chicago to visit Field Museum. You can travel around the world in two or three hours and still be home in time for dinner. The Nth Degree "Well. Dad." said the youth just home from college, "I made it all right and got my A.B." "Good," said the proud parent. "Now you can go out and get your J.O.B." Visual Aids Found Valuable In Kansas City "The course in visual education was inaugurated in the Kansas City Schools four years ago by C. W. Mills, now National Publicity Manager for the Boy Scouts of America. That the work has made rapid progress during this period is attested by the fact that 90 per cent of the public schools in Kansas City are using the motion picture machine and the stereopticon. "The operators, each on a circuit, are showing pictures daily, visiting about twenty schools a week. The use of pictures in the study of grade school subjects has not only made the work more interesting, but has given it additional educational value, since the pupils learn their lessons through both auditory and visual perception." —Kansas City Post.