CM 3 Audioblog #20 Imaginations as Cultivated by the Teaching of Geography and History
The Charlotte Mason Show | A Homeschool Podcast
English - November 13, 2020 08:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsHow To Education Kids & Family Education for Kids charlottemason homeschool homeschooling Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
An able paper appeared some time ago, in the Parents' Review, on the importance of Imagination in teaching. It is a very interesting subject, for on reflection one would be inclined to contest that no good teaching of geography or of history could be possible without a strong power of imagination. In order to teach geography, for instance, it is possible to fill a pupil's head with a certain number of words and figures, which have to be reproduced at an examination by a pure effort of memory. This done, the pupil is supposed to have mastered a branch of the subject, and his mind to be decidedly the richer, possessed mentally of a large tract of country. But it is not so at all. His mind is possessed of two pages of a geography book and certain outlines on a map--and that is geography.