Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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Even the smallest children have unique methods of communicating when they wish to express their thoughts. Education - - Watchword of Tomorrow A definition of communication might be; any behavior that leads to an exchange of meaning. Taught from the early grades up, a child learns how to communicate with his fellow beings — through sim- ple processes that are taken for granted, but that are so necessary and important. In some education centers, communication classes have sprouted up — to teach the meaning of this ex- change to children — just the ordinary methods of reading, writing, and speech. Guidance for young minds through student teaching.

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Match the Universal Pace Communication comes in many forms. Classes are one of the main packages in which thoughts are passed from person to person. In biology, there is a communication of physical facts, ideas and theses. Here is im- parted i nowledge of the human anatomy. Here economics is another field of com- munication — through sewing, cooking and book learning, students communicate and become, themselves, a part of the communi-- cation. Psychology, learning the basis of the hu- man operation — that, too, leans toward the acquiring and imparting of knowledge. And so does mathematics — a communica- tion through the use of numbers, letters and formulae. A new kind, a different kind, but communication, in its most objective form. Such is the way of communication — from the study of the human organism, to the sub- jective study of psychology — and on to ob- jective mathematics. A stitch in time makes a home ec major. Clinical tests offer psychological guid- ance for those seeking personal answers. Mammals are prepared for slides so all may learn. 15

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Practical Application Classes are, in themselves, forms of communica- tion as, indeed, education is basically little more than a mass means of communication between professor and student. This means of communication is through lecture, through reports, through graphs, through motion pictures and through written and oral tests. All these are but a few forms that classroom communication may take. In a business class, communication may take the form of the typewritten word, the shorthand symbol, or business machine verbalizing. And in journalism, the written word takes the fore — woven into stories of intrigue and adventure and routine tales of police action, council meetings, and sports. And so is there communication among the teachers of tomorrow as they discuss the proper and improper methods of coordinating their classroom techniques. All phases of study activity can be deemed a form of communication, for verbal and written methods ore themselves the basis of study. So does communica- tion enter into the heart of the University — the classroom. Dictation, typing — all necessary in the business world, A business journalism class learns to express ideas for those engaged in industry through layout, copy and art.