Excerpt from Geography Manual: Elementary and Higher No wide-awake teacher of to-day wastes his own time and that of his pupils by forcing them to memorize the exact words of a text-book. Such work is t teaching, and is t worth the smallest salary paid in the poorest school district. The pupil who studies the text of a lesson and then expresses the thoughts in his own words becomes master of the lesson. A pupil who merely recites parrot-like the words of the text may t have grasped a single thought, what a cruel waste of energy would result from trying to fix the exact words in mind for a day or at most for a week! No teacher really believes in such work, for teacher ever takes the trouble to force himself to memorize the text. The teacher who drives his pupils to this task does t seem to kw how to teach them to grasp an author's meaning. He thinks the meaning must be in the words and that the pupils must swallow them. Definitions. - Of what use are definitions of hills, rivers, etc.? In daily life do we ever use them? Must a child define in order to kw? 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 techlogy 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.