Excerpt from Practical Methods for Teaching Elementary Geography
Nothing in the elementary school has higher educational significance than learning how to learn geography. It is the first real educational art that comes to the child in school.
Learning to read is learning to use a given tool in a given way for a definite purpose. It has in view the use of books for information and enjoyment, and also for the art of expressing through reading the thoughts of others. Learning to write is learning the use of an educational tool for convenience and for service. Learning number is learning tools and their use for many purposes.
In each case there is a definite end to be attained and a specific way to attain it. To know the thing to be done and then to attain greater skill in the doing of it is the purpose in learning to read, to write and to use number.
One studies geography with an entirely different end in view. One can never know geography as he knows how to read, write and cipher. There is nothing to be so learned that one can say "I know geography." Everyone knows a lot of geography.
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