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Many schools have recently experimented in using broadcasted material 

 as part of the general scheme of instruction with considerable success, 

 any initial difficulties having been successfully overcome. It is probable 

 that, in the days to come, the employment of the means of instruction 

 offered by the cinema and broadcasting, either separately or together, 

 will exercise increasingly useful functions in educational processes. 



During the very fertile period of advance through which we have 

 passed since our meeting here in 1905 many valuable movements in 

 education have come upon the scene. I have only been able to touch 

 very lightly and imperfectly on a few of the more important of those 

 which have broadened our outlook and have materially increased our 

 interest. I have found it very difficult in this brief survey to break away 

 frona the absorbing interest one feels in the claims of the young child for 

 special attention. My investigations of such interesting subjects as the 

 sense of humour and the dreams of English and American children have 

 possibly given me an exaggerated estimate of the importance, and of the 

 extraordinary delight, of the study of early child life. 



Had time permitted I should like to have dwelt for a short time upon 

 the remarkable progress made in recent years in the organisation of adult 

 education in connection with the University Extension Movement and 

 the beneficent activities of the Workers' Educational Association. But 

 I have already gone beyond the normal time limit for a presidential 

 address, and I must ask you to forgive the many sins of omission and 

 commission. 



