INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—Eighteen months ago, thanks to the generosity of a public-spirited man, the International Educational Society was incorporated under the Board of Trade as a society not for profit. Since then it has published over eighty short lectures by some of the leading men and women in England in the form of gramophone records. The circulation of such lectures is clearly destined to play an important part in education, and where, as in the teaching of music or of a foreign language, sound forms an important element in instruction, the gramophone is clearly better than the printed book. It is also better than the broadcast lesson because it can be turned on at any time and can be made to repeat the lesson until it is firmly grasped.
In India, and in the scattered homesteads of the Dominions, thousands may be enabled through this medium to hear the voices of our great teachers, actors and statesmen. Already Universities and schools in India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are making use of these records. The teachers in our own schools at home may now diversify the ordinary course by the introduction of these fresh voices from outside ; and to those who have been unable to obtain the advantages of a college and university life, these records will come as a stimulus to intellectual interest and activity. It is also to be expected that they will greatly lighten the labours of British and Indian teachers throughout the Indian Empire, and help to maintain the standard of pure English throughout the world.
We are, therefore, anxious to extend the work of the Society, and to this end it has been decided to enrol members who will thus be enabled to co-operate in the great work of education. We earnestly hope that some of your readers will see their way to joining in this great enterprise.
The terms of membership are £5 5s. (minimum) for life membership—it is hoped that many people will be altruistic and give larger subscriptions—and £1 1s. for annual member- ship. Members are entitled to purchase these lecture-records through the Society, at the price of 3s. 6d. instead of 4s. 6d. All particulars can he obtained from the Secretary, 91 Petty France, London, S.W. 1.—I am, Sir, &c.,
91 Petty France, Westminster, London, S.W. 1.
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