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The first book in Geography has always been the least interesting Geography text placed in the hands of children. If possible, of eprobhowever, it should be the most inlem method teresting, for the permanent attiin Geography jg of children toward the subject chU dren largely determined by their first study of it. How can improvement be effected? A simple and attractive style of presentation, much detail about the customs of people, and interesting pictures have all proved helpful; but they are inadequate. Modern education suggests a change in the selection and organization of subject matter that may be as great an aid as these other means combined. That is the centering of the treatment in other things than such topics as location, surface features, climate, etc. These are colorless, so far as young children are concerned; and no treatment organized solely on such a basis can avoid being coldly informational. The proposed substitutes [or them are questions or problems within the field of Geography tnat are suggested by the nature and interests of children. In the one case the child is subordinated to the subject; in the other, the subject is subordinated to the child. The two points of view are as wide apart as the poles, and their varying influence in the preparation of a text is constant. This text has been prepared from the viewpoint of the childs interests. Each section deals with questions that are interesting to young people. The fact that it is so directly based on childrens interests and experiences gives more than the customary guarantee that it will prove successful. A nother means for securing greater concreteness has been emphasized. A farm in one section may be typical, in appearance and method of cultivation, of thousands of other farms in the United States. Likewise one great city closely resembles others in general appearance and leading occu
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