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THE application of visual aids to education has been stimulated during the last decade mainly because the value of the still and motion picture projectors is being increasingly realized. Visual aids have existed for a long time ; but it is only comparatively recently that their significance as an educational medium has been fully appreciated. This was recognized by the Havard Report on "General Education in a Free Society", which states : "Traditionally language deputises for what has to be absent. It tells us what we might see or hear. But it too often gets in the way of, or replaces, all that could give it a meaning. Now that the things and events themselves can be brought to us, the role of language is reversed. Instead of words having to explain or represent things, it is rather things or actual processes taking place before us, which explain words or call them in question."
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HAWKINS, T. Visual Aids to Education. Nature 163, 652–654 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163652a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163652a0