Edison's First Great Gift to Education

THE importance of phonograph records in education, and specifically music education, has long been recognized. Yet, despite pre-eminence among available aids, it appears that music teachers have been less alert to the educative values inherent in this medium than have their colleagues in other subject fields. There are other reasons why optimum utilization of records has not been approached, some of them due to emergencies of the recent war, the others not insurmountable obstacles. The Journal is glad to present Mr. Mathews' review of the situation as a preliminary to further discussion in these columns.