Written by Lily Winchester, who was a lecturer in Geography at the University of Liverpool as well as an early geography mistress in a school in the city.
The preface was by former GA President Percy Roxby, who also worked at the University.
Lily has some good aims for Geography...
This seems good, along with awe and wonder which are said to be important.
"How did we teach these imaginative restless little ones in the days gone by? We gave them maps to look at, which they did not understand , scolded them if they fidgeted, and insisted on their remembering lists of names. Fortunately the days of such teaching are sinking unhonoured to their grave. Today it is possible to stimulate the children's interest, to foster and guide their love of adventure, to use their power of memory, to develop it by means of repetition, and to bring all these into the service of training future scholars and future world citizens.
With such a wealth of material at our command surely it behoves us to utilise all its possibilities and to see to it that no lack of effort on our part shall prevent the children from entering into their inheritance, and from attaining a true national citizenship and broad world sympathy with other peoples.
But we must not lose ourselves in the effort to train the sentiment of the children . Accuracy in fact and in impression is essential in these early lessons
Download your own copy from the Forgotten Books website (from which others can be found)
https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/TheTeachingofGeographytoChildren_10022906
100 years old and a great deal of sense being talked here.
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