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VISUAL education starts with certain raw material in the form of items of organized knowledge (usually in verbal form); converts it into visual matter (photograph, diagram, etc.); presents it through some visual medium (wall-mount, ciné-projector, etc.); and usually combines it with oral teaching—all to help the learner to learn more efficiently than by the latter alone. At every stage problems arise. The field is wide and there are many workers in it. At the Visual Education Centre at Exeter we are endeavouring to find solutions to these problems; at its recent research conference its possibilities of usefulness, both as a research institution and as a forum, were demonstrated. (The Museum has a very important function in visual education. I have made no attempt to deal with this as it is beyond the scope of my title.)
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MEREDITH, G. The Visual Education Centre, Exeter. Nature 154, 353–355 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154353a0
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