Seeing is Believing - Today’s education is an eye-opener. Middletown’s half-grown scholars can lean forward on their little chairs, stretch their eyelids up and up, and watch India, a cotton mill or Peter Rabbit burst forth in full color on a screen in front of them. Lincoln School students, for example, can use a room equipped with a film strip projector and an opaque projector, described by Principal Beryl Orr as the school’s No. 1 visual teaching tool. The opaque machine can throw images of anything at the screen. If there is a book illustration that a teacher wants her students to see, she can slip the book into the machine wait an instant, and watch the picture flash in front of her pupils. Lincoln instructors feed postcards, picture stories, magazine photographs, charts, maps and their pupils’ own drawings into the machine...

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