The use of maps in teaching geography : a lecture delivered before the College of Preceptors, May 13, 1896 / by Professor Seeley.
- Harry Govier Seeley
- Date:
- 1896
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Credit: The use of maps in teaching geography : a lecture delivered before the College of Preceptors, May 13, 1896 / by Professor Seeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![difficulties which may have to be overcome are not inherent in the nature of the materials, or in the power of the learner to appreciate the interest of the maps and sections compared. It is always a difficult matter to determine the limit of time which should be placed upon such generalities of study as the form of the globe, of the continents, of our own islands; and to fix the precise age at which the study of the local geography, by means of these maps, comparing rock structure and surface form, can be best commenced with advantage. This is a practical matter which must often be solved, quite as much by the conditions of local geography as by the judgment of the teacher. In this country the teacher is not always a free agent to select the from of teaching which he knows to be best calculated to develop the intellectual powers of the pupil. Yet I submit these proposals for improved geographical teaching to their consideration, with some confidence that, if the suggestions meet with the approval of the teaching profession in our country, means will be found for so varying the existing modes of teaching that in time we may realize better than at present the utility of geography as an instrument of education. The student will then, at least, be taught how to learn geography; and organization will extend practical knowledge of typical geographical features of this country through all schools by providing for the use in them of such natioual maps as the surveys have brought to the hand of teacher and pupil. [The paper was illustrated by a number of geological and geographical maps, especially the sheets of the old and new geological survey maps, the sheets of the old and new ordnance survey map, maps prepared by the author to illustrate the physical geography of England, and many examples of the com- parative geological and geographical maps of the districts visited by the London Geological Field Class.] ! ? iir t fc< ■ . SCO'](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22412803_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
