Show Schools Now Tw Turning Wing to Visual F I Education in Outdoor Classes I 1 z k S y S d c r r 11 r WORLD 3 r. r u ut t 4 f 14 A A l AND MOVIE NOW ARE AID R. R I 1 J 1 1 Mi r ro 1 e t Jr JrR R ucES TAKE SEE S I Above is Dr Charles F. F Thwing president em emeritus tu of Western 1 Reserve university Cleveland A nationally prominent advocate of visual al education who directed the tho teaching staff of th the floating g university Below a year old coed at Western Reserve learning by doing dolg By BERYL MILLER Pictures ald objects mans man's oldest and simplest means of or conveying I Ideas ida rind and obtaining Information again are arc becoming predominant t factors tors in n education lon When primitive man to express his thoughts ho 0 chose the most natural means objects means objects or 01 crude crud pictures Then man in ent Invented d a a new ins Instrument U- U I ment nt of or expression language and language and and pictures s w wore were rl forced to bo bow boty to the spoken and written word i And now the tho old age ex experience Is being employed by progressive pro progressive educators as an Important part of ot the modern school program Today children sit Bit In Sn th their lr warm comfortable classrooms and aro rG transported m mentally to tn he r remotest est Cst corners of th I carth arth by motion notion pictures oIt pU on duties stereo tere graphs graphs' ane and even the t talking motion picture Freed from the bondage o of ot books book are taken out ut on n excursions to get their own Impression of ot the external world world-ef world of trains and sub lub wd of ot derricks l arul harbors of airplanes and nd In Industrial plants of natures nature's bl handiwork FLOATING UNIVERSITY An o outstanding of the ex ex- Is the the round world university with the ave avo avenues nuts nun of th the world for its The globe circling u annual an M- nual tour enable students to see the actual subjects d discussed aa U to obtain a n regular r gu Jar college education n nIn In n special 1 classes aboard ship Teaching students to think Is the goal 0 of education declares Dr Charles F F. Thwing Ih in pre president emerl tug of ot Ve Vet Western t rn Reserve Rolen university Cleveland who directed the teach teaching In ink ing staff of at the Ute fir first t floating col col- loge t 1 Visual od education Is an excellent means to this end providing pro the student has been taught to l learn un through sc ln Some students gaze gare upon a b beautiful scare and nd see very cry little HUll Others greatly enrich their et afore re of or knowledge dge thereby BUS TOURS TOURS' POPULAR The first venture in a a. perambulatory toy tory college on land proved Intensely Intense Intense- ly ly popular last lut summer ummer One Ono bundred hundred hundred hun hun- bun bun- dred and six thirty students student en en enrolled en- en rolled roIled In the first motor bus bus Unit uni university crowing the continent from Charlotte CharlotteN N N. C to the Pacific coast coul f. f Traveling In Jn eleven eleve buses Q and eight sedans the students were bItI able bIt to see to ace see the he beauty III spots of at the nation na n nation I tion wh wh le gaining a t full Jl summer r school credits Thousands of ot public school p pupils are r being permitted to study the th most fascinating textbook ever d de devised the the world itself Pupils In New Tork York City Ie leam n about transportation I by yi subways s 's In actual oper operation Mem Mem- Members Members bers of geography clis classes In Wit Wil WIT WIT- mingto ton n Cat Cal L E down to Jo 50 go Jho Jh reat t. t lumber Jock ock lI so 80 tija thai th they may t better bet bet eU eUter ter tar understand maps ol harbors An ana ane out Ol P ft a and rid imports Children in the middle w t make Pt Per personal c contacts with farm life grain e el elevators nd canneries s. s u T The seeing r experience experience- arK and the doing by P procedures are particularly as s a. a means of Df educating t the youner preschool p u r ils and chiI en special college o opened ned at ati erl university In Cleveland i J thud fall tall for tor pupils ranging rang rang- ing In n age from 18 IS months to 3 years Sear who Rho are ate majoring n In playing play play- In ing sleeping and d eating Ing 7 T r r the three r rs rd of ot childhood have C been supplanted by bythe the three arenta They arent aren't cramped up In d desks ks They ThY aren arena arent t sternly And they arent aren't forced to absorb adults adults' Ideas Instead the Un tiny play games ames stimulating not only quick muscular r responses oes but quick mental men adjustment tal to situations They make things with their hands hands sand sand houses 3 wooden aJr- aJr ld drawings They are 1 learning to hang up their clothes to wasn their hands and And faces to observe ervo proper rules at the dinner table If U they rock too h hard rd on the hobby horse and tall off art they learn cau cau- tion They acquire self confidence b by climbing climbing- lattice work ork and boxes Above all all they are are learning tp think k for tor themselves not themselves not merely to absorb other peoples people's ideas IN PLASTIC AGE When n. n child Is very cry young parents par par- I tints and teachers should howd have re respect respect re- re reI I sped for big Intellectual life s says Miss M May mil director of t the nuns nurs cry ery ry school These children are in the m most plastic oie age Xh They are developing d desirable social t habits and attitudes which will wUl have in an an Important In Influence Influence In In- n fluence ence upon their theft later lter life Ure Similar schools 8 are In il n operation n nin In New Tork York Iowa Minnesota and other states t j There Is not cwt a s progressive school system In America Americ that thatIs is not al al- al r ready dy making use ae of ot t visual l c Uon tion or lI contemplating doing do doIng do- do ing so 0 o according to the bUr bureau u of education of the US U 17 8 So department of the tho Interior A nationwide experiment nt conduct ed fod by Dr Ben D. D Wood of ot Columbia university and Dr Frank N N. Freeman Free r man of or Chicago university has haa shown hown that instruction with specially special- special ly prepared tUrns films excelled Instruction tion lion without the motion pictures In public school chool hool classrooms TALKIES ALSO AID Sound films which add the touch of reality to tho the pictured picture Illustration lion tion aro being watched d with Interest b by educators who ho sec Bee In them vast promise u as an anaid aid t to education Intense Interest In Sn the tho talkie by students was as Illustrated recently at Texas State Slate College c for Women Unable to purchase a machine the tho girls pr prevailed upon tuon Professor C. C N N. Adkisson to build them one Northe Now Nor the students ate are not only presenting g gound sound pl pictures tur s but aro arc planning to tomake tomake make their 0 own films tUrns Aware w of the of at the seeing experience more than a a. lI score ore of r universities and teachers teachers' t colleges aro arc offering courses course to train teachers In the technique tech tech- of ot using Ising materials But even enn the most ardent Arden eXPOnents expo expo- of or the motion picture as LS a IL now form fonn of classroom procedure point out that it Is not the tho business of the films tUrns to supplant language It Is their business to give la language a Aricher aricher richer and more moro cut clear-cut m meaning NEA |