RADIO AND EDUCATION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 675, 30 October 1933, Page 4

RADIO AND EDUCATION

The possibility of using the radio broadcast in cormeetion with our education system has lately received considerable attenton. The use of the radio is specially commended in the case of country schools. The outlook of the country child must be, up j to a point, restricted by His surroundings. He is denied the frequent opportunity of seeing educational talking films. If he has leanings toward music, or art, he j may he left more or less to fend i for himself in the direction of j developing them. He cannot lis- j ten to the specialist so readily as i can the pupil of the town school. The country child can, of course, hear good music over the air during ordinary broadcast progranimes, but the measure of his appreciation may be tremendously increased if he is able, at regular intervals, to listen to in-

structional talks on music, with aceompanying performance to illustrate the points made. There is no doubt that the school curriculum could be greatiy enlarged by the use of the radio to impart_ knowledge of subjncts that otherwise would not be treated at all, or would be done well or poorly according to the capacity of the teaeher. Schoolchildren in town or country could be helped to a better appreciation (the

seeds of it could at least be sown) of those more intellectual pur suits that may, in after years open np some of life's most pleasant bypaths for leisurely exploration. If this is one of the aims of the Radio Broadcasts to , Schools Committee, it is deserv- ! ing of the fullest and most sympathetic encouragement. The economy of the method alone ie ! one that should strengthen the case for the continuance of the broadcasts.