Excerpt from Suggestions to Teachers of Geography Children should very early be made to realize that the text-book contains valuable informa tion, and they should be taught how to get that information from its pages. After any lesson has been given orally, and certain important facts in it have been summed up by the children and particularly dwelt on, then, on the next day for instance, the teacher should use the book and have the lesson read, stopping after each paragraph to question for the particular thought or thoughts contained in it. Then at the end of the reading lesson she should have a number of children tell, each in his own words, the gist of the whole lesson but find no fault if the pupils use the words of the text, provided the sense of the matter is manifestly understood. With pupils who are just beginning the use of a text-book the teacher will do well to study each lesson from the text-book in this way instead of assigning lessons to be learned by them. Help of this kind is much more likely to lead young children to right methods of study than is any amount of learning a lesson by heart or of poring over it by themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.