Home Geography for Primary Grades (Classic Reprint)

I deas acquired by direct observation form a basis for imagining those things which are distant and unknown. The first work, then, in geographical instruction, is to study that small part of the earths surface lying just at our doors. All around are illustrations of lake and river, upland and lowland, slope and valley. These forms must be actually observed by the pupil, mental pictures obtained, in order that he may be enabled to build up in his mind other mental pictures of similar unseen forms. The hill ,that he climbs each day may, by an appeal to his imagination, represent to him the lofty Andes or the A lps. From the meadow, or the bit of level land near the door, may be developed a notion of plain and prairie. The little stream that flows past the schoclhouse door, or even one formed by the sudden shower, may speak to him of theM ississippi, the A mazon, or the Rhine. Similarly, the idea of sea or ocean may be deduced from that of pond or lake.
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