A DANCER OF BROADCASTING

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 23

A DANCER OF BROADCASTING

The Archbishop of York in a. letter to a conference of those who give educational talks over the wireless: —"It is plain that broadcasting affords n marvellous opportunity for the extension of educational work of all kinds. But there is a special danger about broadcast education, namely, that those who listen will suppose that all they have to do is to hear and believe what they are told. Mercifully, the doctrines enunciated are sufficiently various to makethis impossible with regard to the whole series of broadcast stalks; but it must always be remembered that the final stage in education is that of assimilation, not that. of mere reception, and assimilation involves criticism, with the retention of what is found good and useful, and the rejection of all else. "Consequently, group discussion is quite indispensable if listening, even to learned discourses, is not to be added to the multitude of occupations which have the effect of 'making idler still a mind already idle' Members of groups, and,-of course, especially group leaders, have, therefore, a very great part to play, and their part just now is of all the more importance because we are still experimenting with this new power and laying downVthe linos which will, to some extent, ye taken for granted. It is supremely important that we should lay down the right lines, and that, therefore, those who are now engaged in the enterprise should havo the highest sense of responsibility, not only for gaining the utmost advantage themselves, but for laying the best foundations of what may become the most imposing of educational structure."