FILMS IN SCHOOL
Wellington College as Experimental Centre
In conformity with a suggestion by the headmaster, Mr. W. A. Armour, the Wellington College Board of Governors yesterday decided to ask the Education Department to consider making Wellington College an experimental centre for visual Instruction by means of the cinematograph. “Our school has been in the forefront in the movement As it is centrally situated and as the Education Department must very soon give consideration to the equipment of schools for visual instruction, I want to suggest to the board that it make a request to the Minister of Education to establish at Wellington College an experimental centre for visual Instruction by means of the cinema,”'wrote Mr. Armour. “We should have a suitable room properly equipped and ventilated, a 16 in.m. projector to take both silent and sound-films, and a supply of educational films suited for classroom teaching. “The board will do a good work for education in this country if it will give effect to my suggestion and give members of this staff the opportunity of demonstrating how effective the moving picture can be as :iu aid io secondary classroom teaching.”
Mr. Armour added that there were five rooms in the school that could lie readily darkened, and were already equipped with power points for electric supply.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 284, 28 August 1935, Page 5
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