ROBOT TEACHER
BUILDING WORDS ON REYOLYING DISC. SCHOOLMASTER'S INVENTION. SYDNEY, Saturday. Shades of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn! Is the day of the robot school teacher at hand? Mr. P. G. Hamilton Foster, teacher in charge of the Homestead School, Tenterfield, thinks so and he said that an invention he has patented and forwarded to the Education Department is the forerunner of the mechanical master. He does not aim at anything quite so ambitious as mechanical men — but, in the future, who can tell ? His invention briefly is a disc on which may be prin.t'ed or stencilled suitable word beginnings, the disc being made to rotate against a semicircular plate on which may be printed suitable word endings. In this way words may be huilt — an ingenious device for the self-teaching of wordbuilding. On the other side of the disc is an easy method of teaching mathematics, while the disc would also he a clock face and contain the four points of the coiupass. Mr. Foster, who has been a school teacher for over '20 years, is coming to Sydney in January to give a demonstration of his invention before a gathering of inspectors.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 December 1931, Page 7
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