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top-level research work. The teacher has only to invite the
student to do as complete an inventory as possible. Any child
can list the effects of the telephone or the radio or the motor
car in shaping the life and work of his friends and his society.
An inclusive list of media effects opens many unexpected
avenues of awareness and investigation.
Edmund Bacon, of the Philadelphia town-planning commission,
discovered that school children could be invaluable researchers
and colleagues in the task of remaking the image of the city.
We are entering the new age of education that is programmed
for discovery rather than instruction. As the means of input
increase, so does the need for insight or pattern recognition.
The famous Hawthorne experiment, at the General Electric
plant near Chicago, revealed a mysterious effect years ago. No
matter how the conditions of the workers were altered, the