A brief course in the teaching process

by George D. Strayer

b. Intermediate grades: give setting to life side.

Larger facts only.

c. Upper grade: basis of work.

Not to be taught as a topic by itself but as a means to an end.

H. Emphasis of industries and commercial side.

I. “Following interests of children,”—best meaning of phrase. Value and dangers.

Recent interest in industrial education places a renewed obligation on geography to be practical and to be free from fads.

Developing interest. Temporary and permanent interests.

References: Teachers College Record, March, 1901, pp. 9-15. McMurry, C. A., Special Method in Geography, chap. ii. Redway, J. W., New Basis of Geography, chap. x. Bagley, W. C., Function of Geography in Elementary Schools, Journal of Geography, Vol. III, p. 222. Dodge, Richard E., “Some Suggestions Concerning a Course of Study in Geography,” Journal of Geography, vii, pp. 7-14.