Thursday 2 January 2020

Thought for the Day

 Field study is a means of acquiring knowledge through the observation and exploration of our terrestrial environment. There are few aids to this kind of learning. It requires qualities and powers of mind different in some respects from those which are developed in the process of learning from books or from discourse. It is a kind of learning arising in the first place from curiosity about the visible and tangible world, and requiring a capacity for looking beyond the superficial appearance of things.
Geoffrey Hutchings, former GA President

Source: HUTCHINGS, GEOFFREY E. “Geographical Field Teaching: Address to the Geographical Association.” Geography, vol. 47, no. 1, 1962, pp. 1–14. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40565627

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