Dial for Plato

Monitor Season 5 Episode 18

Overview:
In America, as in this country, education is suffering from a shortage of text-books, classroom space, and, above all, of teachers.

Sol Cornberg talks to Huw Wheldon about his current projects to tackle this problem in America by applying radio and television techniques to education.

My mission is to create the tool which will permit the educator to multiply himself

I am concerned with efficient means for the passing of information. Books are extremely inefficient

Plato's thoughts have not been used up: he can be made available on a channel

A Monitor production

Genre : Documentary

Actors : -

Release Date : 1962-06-12

Duration : -

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