A Practical System of Modern Geography, or a View of the Present State of the World Simplified (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Jesse Olney

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133313956X ISBN 13 : 9781333139568

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Geography into common tchoolt, mt ragnlsr branch oedacation, has of late years become nearly univenal. Formerly this science was tauffht only to the higher rlnteea, it being thought by most teachers uat the pupil must be vmll advaneed ia other branches before he could study thk with advantage. Experience has however taught, that ch Udren can learn Geography at a very early age, and hence its introduction into ihe yoo Qger classes at the present time. But among the books which have been published on this tabject, although many of them are works of great merit, there aiv none suited to the capacities of young boginnen. Most of them begin with definitions, which, to be understood, require a degraa of knowledge on the subject, never possessed by the new beginner. Children, instead of being made to commit definitions to mao Mirj. shoald, as much as possible, at the binning, be taught by means or the eye; and hence the use of maps, pictures, and diagrams, in teaofe ing infants. The map is to Geography, what orthography is to the art ofreading. The scholar must not only uodentami its use, but must have an intimate knowledge of all its parts, before he cnn undertake the study of descriptive geography with advantage. When he haa acqmred a praoticai and thorough knowledge of we map of a country, he has then laid the ground work for understanding ita description, and not befere. Suppose a child should leani by heart eveiv thing about the climate, scenery, and productions of Switzerland, for instance, and suppose bi to be intimate with the names of all its mountains, lakes, and forests, how much knowledge of the gaogrephy of that conntry would he possess 7I tis obvious that witW- ont knowing also the relative situation of these mountains, lakes, and forests, in respect to each other, together with their distances and bearings, such knowledge never could be applied to an
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133313956X
• ISBN 13: 9781333139568
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
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