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Excerpt from Geography for the Fifth and Sixth Grades: A Course of Study and Teachers' Manual In the fifth grade we are ready to take up in detail those things immediately around us and thus finish the foundation for future work no matter what the locality. After the home region it is as easy to follow one sequence as another and many times easier to follow a text than to set up an arbitrary sequence and try to adapt the text to suit its needs. Since following the text solves many difficulties and offers few obstacles, the reasonable thing to do is to follow the book that has been prescribed and make the best of it by adding to or taking from it as the case demands. The adding to it can best be done through many of the excellent supplementary readers. As there arc many things thrown into a description of any region for the sake of making it as complete as possible it becomes necessary for the teacher to select and evaluate the different topics. Some are worth practically nothing while the others are of the utmost practical importance. It is not an easy matter to say offhand just what is to be kept in and what is to be left out unless one takes a certain standard and judges all topics and details of content by that one standard. Tf that is to ho done, the only legitimate standard will be the standard of use. Of what use is it or of what use will it bet This is the question that must be answered. If the point will not defend itself when analyzed thus it must be rejected as a minor point. Those things will he important that are of value in the everyday walks of life and not those that serve only a special purpose. Since each teacher has several subjects to teach and consequently has a relatively small amount of time to be given to each subject she docs not have the time to go through the entire course in geography to evaluate the various topics. It is deemed advisable, then, to go through the course with her and suggest the value that each topic bears to the whole course so that she may, at a glance, sec what may be a proper proportion of time to be given each topic. It can hardly be hoped that the standards set up here are absolutely accurate in every case, but they are at least approximately correct, so that those who follow the course can easily make the necessary allowance one way or the other and soon have it adjusted to their ideas. It is necessary to make such evaluation since most text-book writers are more or less indiscriminate in treating the topics. 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.