Physical Geography In The High School

Author : Charles Redway Dryer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330111208
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book High School Geography written by Charles Redway Dryer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from High School Geography: Physical, Economic and Regional That the better part of geography is to be found in a study of relationships is the conviction of all geographers. Only by such study can an affirmative answer be given to Jowett's question, "Can geography be used to make students think?" There is no subject which presents a greater number and variety of relationships than geography. It leaves hardly any field of human knowledge untouched, and is the mutual debtor and creditor of all. It is capable of yielding a purely scientific discipline "uncontaminated with the worship of usefulness," and it can be made as baldly "practical" as the commercial spirit requires. The higher interests of education demand a judicious combination of pure and applied science. The most important thing about the earth is the fact that it is a human planet, that men not only live upon it, but make, somehow, a living out of it. The earth as a planet, a machine which "goes" and "works," an organism which has grown and developed in the past and will continue to do so in the future, has never been so thoroughly studied and understood as it is to-day. The main result of such study, under the name of physical geography, has been a favorite subject in secondary schools. Some special phases of human activity, more or less closely related to the earth, such as products, manufactures, trade, races, customs, language, religion, and government, are everywhere taught under the names of commercial and political geography. But these different kinds of geography are seldom brought closely together, and the crowning relationship of all geographic science, the relation of the human species to its natural environment, is generally missed or but dimly seen. 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.