Question

in geography we have to learn according with scope

Answer 1

THE position of any subject in the school curriculum depends upon its appraised educational worth. Sometimes the mirror of values is turned toward the future, at other times it claims to reflect the present. Geography has moved up and down the scale of educational importance since the time of the cultured Atheni- ans, disappearing entirely from the curriculum when its import was low, returning when the public interest expanded from local to international concern, or when the physical and intellectual life of the people was focused into the same era of time. Geog- raphy has never occupied the first place in the school curriculum as a cultural subject, but in rare instances its utility has given it the highest standing, as in the school of navigation established by Prince Henry at Segres in the fifteenth century, and in modern times in the colonial schools maintained by certain European governments. The educational status of the subject has not been due to its content, but to its pedagogy. Teachers have looked upon it as a collection of facts which could be memorized; and if action rather than speech can be taken as a reflex of thought, the majority of the army of teachers still maintain this con- ception. This does not refer to the superior teachers in every department from the kindergarten to the college, but to the great teaching body which shapes our educational policies. This state- ment is not based upon deductions from pessimistic theory, but from work seen during the last year in schools located between the Rocky Mountains and N