Saturday, 25 May 2019

Quote of the Day

"In geography, as in other subjects, we want to change from the teaching by words to the teaching by the things the words are supposed to describe. 
Geographical teaching, to be worth anything, must be real and practical. It is not enough to appeal to the ear alone. The eye must be trained as well, first of all by seeing the actual land surface from which the first lessons in geography must be taken."

(Herbertson, A.J. (1896) Geographical education. The Scottish Geographical Magazine: 597

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