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Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 21, 9 December 1927, Page 4

The outcome of the experimental broadcast to schools which has been arranged for December 18 by the Education Department will be waited with much interest. On that day between 2 and 3 p.m., several lectures'will be given from the studio of 2YA and reception reported on from a large number of country schools throughout the country. The use of wireless in schools is no new thing. In both Britain and America it is in use and also in a number of Continental countries. The purposes for which it is used there may be slightly different from those aimed at here, and it remains to be seen how our averagely greater distances between station and school affect the position. Obviously, wireless presents an extraordinary facility for reaching simultaneously large numbers of children on special occasions or with special lessons which will aid the individual teacher in his personal contact. Whether directly educational or not in its intent, it is impossible for any broadcast session not to leave some trace upon the life of the community. Subtly, but definitely, every spoken word entering every home is leaving its impress on the diction, thought or feeling of the listeners and experienced observers predict, through broadcasting, a steady breaking down of dialects and the creation of common purity in language. Similarly, through music there will be wrought a development of taste which will be far reaching. Just how far broadcast tuition can be adapted to New Zealand’s conditions and circumstances remains to be seen, but it is encouraging that the Education Department is arranging this test as a preliminary to determining its acceptance or otherwise of the offer of the Broadcasting Company to give a regular session daily for School work. Py