Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08

the faculty. All replied, and more than 800,
from all parts of the country and from the
greatest colleges to the least, evidenced the
greatest interest.
''The suggestions which follow regarding col
lege education are culled from these letters and
give some idea of the revolution which is inn
pending in the methods of acquiring knowledge.
Experts have severely criticized the situation
which compels a professor year after year to
give the majority of his time to lectures which,
while new to students, are routine to the Savant.
While a subordinate or a mechanic operates
the machine with electricity at cents an hour,
the professor will at last be free to spend hours
in valuable research enabling him to improve
his own teaching method, present new materials
to his classes and give him opportunity to add
to knowledge in his chosen field.
I'm the small college the study of biology
and the physical sciences would be enriched if
certain expensive experiments could be per-
formed before the camera with explanatory re-
marks by an expert. The reproduction of these
experiments would save the small college money
and make possible a larger series of expert
ments than can now be offered.
Great college professors and lecturers will
be available to all the colleges of the world
Millikan, Einstein, S1apley can explain their
own findings with star maps and charts as il
it were a personal lecture to college students
and colleagues everywhere.
Even in economics it is possible to make
strides and bring to the eyes and ears of the
students the variations in life and labor all
the globe. To look in at a textile mill in the
Carolinas to see how work is done in India,
China and Russia as compared with the United
States, is to teach contemporary history with
q vividneSs that is not possible now.
I'm teaching philosophy and ethics it would
add reality to the instruction if the students
no Of
from various countries give an exposition OF
their ideas. Students now study about John
Dewey of Columbia How much more interests
ing and impressive If they heard him talk!
How much would it add to ones grasp oa
the sweep of history and the change in civilisaH
ton if we could hear and see Alexander
Aristotle, Plato and Perices; if Caesar, Na~
poleon and Washington were to speak to ua
from their own time in history; if Lincoln
could be heard; if Beethoven, Bach and
Brahms could give us their interpretations and
their deathleSS masterpieces of music!
ESJNSTEAD of trying to form our own warped
image from the facts gathered in books,
could feel the vibrant force of these famous
personalities and the tempo of their age from
audible motion pictures and get a truer per-
spective of the past
This will be our gift to the future-the
talking picture records of famous contemporary
events and personalities Even now States, COLI
leges and the Nation have begun to form ar
chives of the audible film records of men and
happenings which will be the teaching material
of the future
Education has progressed in the form of am
ascending spiral. We are now back at tho
point although on a higher level, at which
education really began.
"a man saw log roll and invented the
wheel. Another saw a log float and invented
the boat. third genius that there Waa
a great extension of human force in the aSc OF
q pole and devised the lever. These thS
primary human inventions seen by the eye, ami
their use and development was taught from
generation to generation by the human Voics
- (Copyright. 1891