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

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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.

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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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Building Communications Communications — the hands often express the future. ndustnal arts plays a role in communications — a role that fits into the deliberate communication, that of producing the material and equipment that covers the field. Good communication is communication that a person understands, accepts and acts upon. Building communication pays as high a dividend as that of re- ceiving it. Our business world is more highly mech- anized today and uses the industrial arts field for this emphasis. 18