Exposition and illustration in teaching . , my teacher did not attend to the Note at thefoot. The diagram was always taken for granted, sothat a large number of my classmates never quiteknew what was meant by the remarks that headed thevarious countries dealt with in the text. For example,under Peru, one read ^^ Latitude in the middle the sameas the south of Lower Guinea; and under Arabia,^^Same latitude as from the middle of Morocco to themiddle of Senegambia. In schools, however, wherethe book is properly used (for it has still a wide sale),there is continual reference to the diagram, with t
Exposition and illustration in teaching . , my teacher did not attend to the Note at thefoot. The diagram was always taken for granted, sothat a large number of my classmates never quiteknew what was meant by the remarks that headed thevarious countries dealt with in the text. For example,under Peru, one read ^^ Latitude in the middle the sameas the south of Lower Guinea; and under Arabia,^^Same latitude as from the middle of Morocco to themiddle of Senegambia. In schools, however, wherethe book is properly used (for it has still a wide sale),there is continual reference to the diagram, with theresult that the pupils learn to know exceedingly wellthe relative positions of the different countries on theface of the globe. Naturally, this is not the final stagein teaching relative position on the earths represents the pictorial stage, or perhaps, better, thepictorial aspect. There is not only room, but necessity, ^ Modern Geography for the Use of Schools, by Robert Anderson. 380 EXPOSITION AND ILLUSTRATION IN TEACHING. Note. — Teachers are requested to see that their pupils thoroughly masterthis brief lesson. The position of these eleven countries, which occupy the western shores of the Old Wojrld, is used to indicatcihe latitude of all. othercountries of_the globe. Fig. * Reproduced by kind permission of Messrs. Thomas Nelson andSons, London and New York. THE DIAGRAM 381 for the freer indication of position on the surface of theglobe as indicated by latitude and longitude. But thediagram follows the laws of good teaching in beginningwith the matter and ending with the form. A similardiagram of the Eastern states might be used with verygreat advantage in teaching the relative positions of thevarious parts of the Union. When we are given thelatitude and longitude of Georgia and Oregon, we can, byreferring to a common standard reason out their rela-tive positions. But in facts that are so close to oureveryday life it is well to get, wherever possible, a
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