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Geography is, to my ideas, a subject of extreme tutorial value; the peculiar value of geography lies in its well being to nourish the ideas with ideas, and to furnish the creativeness with footage.
Geography must be interesting-
The child’s geography lesson must furnish merely the type of information which grown-up people care to personal… fascinating, graphic, with a spice of personal journey….we skip the dry particulars and figures, and browse the suggestive pictorial scraps; these are the sorts of points we choose to know, and take into accout with ease.
For educative capabilities, the child must be taught such geography, and in such a way, that his ideas shall thereby be saved with ideas, his creativeness with photos; for smart capabilities he must be taught such geography solely as, the character of his ideas thought-about, he’ll able to take into accout; in several phrases, he must be taught what pursuits him. The educative and the smart run in a single groove, and the geography lesson turns into basically essentially the most charming occupation of the child’s day.
The child will get his rudimentary notions of geography as he’ll get his first notions of pure science, in these prolonged hours outdoors of which we have already seen the importance.
He’ll get his first notion of a map from a rude sketch
Give him subsequent intimate information with the fullest particulars, of any nation or space of the world, any county or district of his private nation. It is not essential that he must be taught at this stage what is named the ‘geography’ of the nations of Europe, the continents of the world- mere strings of names for basically essentially the most half… Nevertheless let him be at dwelling in any single space; let him see, with the ideas’s eye, the people at their work and at their play, the flowers and fruits of their seasons, the beasts, each in its habitat; and let him see all sympathetically, that is, let him observe the adventures of a traveller ; and he’s conscious of additional, is finest furnished with ideas, than if he had learnt all the names on all the maps. The ‘methodology’ of this kind of educating could also be very straightforward and obvious; study to him, or study for h
The essential ideas of geography sort a stunning introduction to the analysis. A couple of of them must awaken the nice curiosity which attaches in a toddler’s ideas to that which is incredible, incomprehensible, whereas the map courses must lead to mechanical efforts equally nice. It is solely when provided to the child for the first time inside the kind of stale information and foregone conclusions that the main points taught in such courses appear dry and repulsive to him. An effort must be made to take care of the subject with the type of sympathetic curiosity and freshness which attracts children to new analysis.
-Charlotte Mason
Charlotte Mason’s Distinctive Homeschooling Assortment
