Excerpt from How to Use the Educational Sound Film Education is no longer the relatively simple and leisurely process of a century ago. The amount of human knowledge has increased beyond the learning capacity of any one person. No individual lifetime can span more than a small part of the accumulated wisdom of the world. To complicate the situation further, our funded knowledge is almost unlimited in its ramifications and implications and no one human mind has the necessary versatility to comprehend it all. In the face of these conditions, the words "curriculum" and "method" become exceedingly significant and the educator must be constantly on the alert for more efficient teaching processes and more effective learning implements. With so much to be learned, time becomes of the essence. With the pattern of the modern world becoming increasingly complex and with the human mind constantly battering away at the ramparts of the infinite, the learner cannot spend his time muddling with details when he should be dealing with the overview, nor can he expect to comprehend the pattern of life unless he can trace its warp and woof, infinitely fine though they may be. So it is that the schools must ever be devising better ways of teaching and learning, better instruments for translating vicarious experience as nearly as possible into reality. Sometimes the educator creates his own devices. Again, he adopts and adapts the discoveries and inventions of others. So it was with printing, with the radio, and with the talking picture. The processes of education and the implementation of these processes usually develop slowly through evolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.