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and education should overlap, certainly need not be considered definitely distinct 

 from each other. General educational impHcations in classical music, grand opera, 

 literary plays and readings, news bulletins (from which mere sensationalism is 

 excluded), topical talks selected so as to give an understanding of current problems 

 in politics, economics, &c., and to keep listeners in touch with progress and achievement 

 in every line of human activity. Specific educational activities in two classes — 

 Adult and Schools. In both cases talks, almost invariably given in series of six to 

 twelve, are supplemented by ' follow-up ' work of various kinds, ' Aids to Study ' 

 pamphlets, &c., containing bibUographies, notes and illustrations, to be used in 

 conjunction with the talks. Co-operation essential at the listening end in both cases. 

 As to adult education, the B.B.C. and the British Institute of Adult Education formed 

 a joint committee under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Hadow, and the committee's 

 report, entitled ' New Ventures in Broadcasting,' pubUshed in the spring, created 

 widespread interest. Explains how broadcasting widens the field from which students 

 are drawn, and puts listeners in touch with leaders of thought and the chief experts 

 in many subjects. Contact between mind and mind a vital part of educational process 

 and discussion groups should be encouraged. Creation of a central council suggested, 

 with certain powers and responsibilities in connection with adult education work. 

 In the meantime a small interim committee under Lord Justice Sankey is formulating 

 a plan for the establishment and authority of such a council. The Hadow Committee 

 recommended that part of the revenue from licences now retained by the Postmaster- 

 General over and above the costs of collection and administration should be handed 

 over to the Council. 



The conclusions of an exhaustive experiment conducted by the Kent Education 

 Authority (with a grant from the Carnegie United Kingdom Trustees) were published 

 in a report this summer. The regular broadcasting of a daily lesson in term time 

 has proceeded for four years, and over 5,000 schools avail themselves of this oppor- 

 tunity. Similar machinery to that for adult education is proposed. 



(6) Mr. Salter Davis. — An Experiment in Educational Broadcasting. 



Discussion (Sir William Bragg, K.B.E., F.R.S.; Sir Oliver Lodge, 

 F.R.S. ; Mr. Watson Davis). 



Demonstrations of wireless reception suitable for school classrooms ; 

 model studio, &c. 



Educational Clinics and Psychological Tests. Papers — 

 (a) Dr. W. Boyd. — The work of Educational Clinics. 



(6) Dr. R. H. Crowley. — The Need for and Organisation of Child 

 Guidance Clinics, with special reference to American Experience. 



During the last few decades there has been a general movement to pass from the 

 child in the mass to the child in groups. BUnd, deaf, mentally defective, crippled 

 and, more recently, dehcate, dull, backward, partially blind, partially deaf children, 

 have been grouped for purposes of special study and appropriate treatment. Atten- 

 tion is now becoming focussed on the ' mal-adjusted,' the ' diflScult,' the ' delinquent,' 

 and the ' anti-social ' child, and on the signs and symptoms of temperamental 

 abnormalities in their earUest stages and the relation of these to more serious manifesta- 

 tions in later life. Reference is made to the arrangements at present existing in this 

 country for dealing with children presenting these character traits, and some account 

 is given of the working of a typical child guidance clinic, based upon visits paid by 

 the writer at the invitation of the Commonwealth Fund of New York to various child 

 guidance clinics in the United States. The different aspects of the work are described 

 under the headings of Service, Teaching, Educational Propaganda, and Research. 

 The organisation of a child guidance clinic is described, with special reference to its 

 associations with the educational system of the area, the Infant Welfare and School 

 Medical services, the various voluntary Child Welfare organisations and institutes, 

 the Children's Court and Probation Officer service, the general medical practitioner. 



