Where We Live

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Excerpt from Where We Live: A Home Geography Once upon a time as four blind men sat by the roadside they heard the tramp of an elephant's feet, and said one to another. "Here comes an elephant: now we shall know what he is like." The first blind man put out his hand and touched the elephant's broad side. The second took hold of a leg. The third grasped a tusk, and the fourth clutched the animal's tail. "Now do you know what an elephant looks like?" asked a friend. "Yes, " cried the first. "The elephant is broad and Hat like a barn door." "What!" exclaimed the second. "The elephant is big and round like the trunk of a tree." "Not so!" cried the third. "The elephant is bard and smooth like a polished stone." "What are you all talking about?" cried the fourth. "The elephant is just like a piece of rope." Much so-called teaching of geography leads to just such incomplete and fantastic ideas about geographical concepts. Very many children have only vague, incomplete and incorrect conceptions of the things they see. Like these physically and mentally blind men we are too often satisfied with mere wordy descriptions of subjects when we might study the subject at first band if we would. This little hook is intended to prevent the giving of information by description, but to suggest ways of directing attention to those things which lie within reach of the child's senses, things which he might pass by, things which are needed now to stimulate an intelligent interest in his surroundings, things which are needed later for an appreciation and enjoyment of his study of the larger facts and concepts of geography. If the larger geographical concepts are to have accuracy and richness for the child he must have his attention directed to his surroundings. 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.