The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-12-13
Seeing Things"
And Education

Things seen are mightier than
/ than things heard" So writes
Norman J. Lasher, Supt. Schools,
Gas City, Ind, in connection with
remarks on the importance of "vis-
ual education" for STRENGTHENING
Judgment and memory. Visual in
struction is foremost in the minds
of all educators of today. Pschy-
biologists tell us that 80 per cent
OF our perceptions-some say 81
! per cent-come through the eye,
and that these perceptions ere the
most vivid and therefore the most
lasting,
The most significant advance in
education today is the movement
for the adoption of visualizing de-
vices. One of these devices is the
motion picture machine for schools.
The government has made appro-
priations for supplying suitable
films free. Supt. Hitchcock and
the school directors are engaged on
plan for securing such 4 machine
for St. Johnsbury schools. When
il is installed, it will place St.
Johnsbury in the front rank of
educational progress.
Another visualizing device which
has the advantage that it may be
in the home for daily use for every
lesson and every member of the
family and which is as truly a
modern invention as the motion
picture, is
COMPTON'S PICTURED ENCY-
CLOPEDIA
Concerning this work Supt.
Lasher, quoted above, comments
as follows: "When one sees this
Pictured Encyclopedia, he is at
once attracted by the great num-
Der of well chosen and lifelike
pictures, which are not reprints of
old, uninteresting scenes and sit
uations but new pictures with APP,
plication to modern life. He sees
the things he studies, mental pic
turc is formed which stimulates
his imagination. His memory and
judgment are strengthened by
sense perceptions. In this day of
sense training and especially of
visual education,' this great refer
ence work is IN innovation. It
is immensely practical in its
method Of Installation"
Another educator out of the
many who have enthusiastically
hailed this encyclopedia for its Wis
ualizlng features, writes: 1--WE are
beginning to make use of the fact
that through the sense of sight,
the most impressive and lasting
conscious experiences are made.
Most people are 'eye-minded', that
is, they get more and better i'm
pressions through the sight than
through any of the other senses.
Who cannot recall, years after
wards, facts associated with pic
torial illustrations, while those
things not so illustrated have faded |
beyond recall or are recalled but |
indefinitely? Picture illustrations,
next to seeing objects themselves, |
make impressions that stand out in |
bold relief in consciousness. In
accordance with this psychological /
principle, Comptons Pictured En-
cyclopedia has made use of this /
most successful approach to human
consciousness" c. NJ. FARMER,
Dir. Examinations State Normal
School, Troy, Ala.
Comptons Pictured Encyclopedia
is d real encyclopedia in that the
text matter covers all subjects; but
it also illustrates every subject.
The pictures number 10,O0O,-99
percent Of which are halftones.
See this work for yourself in +. c.
Smiths Book Store, Eastern Ave.
For full particulars, communicate 1
with c. H. Morse, Orient St, Tel.
J-W.-Adycrtiscmcnt.