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of education in their institutions, in order that they may 

 profit by such studies. An investigation of the geographical 

 facts most often referred to in non-geographical articles 

 in newspapers and magazines, in the routine of the busi- 

 ness office, in classes studying Botany, Zoology, History, 

 would give an excellent basis for the material to be pre- 

 sented in a high school geography text book. 



Such subjects as Geography are useful not only for their 

 information content but for the power they develop in mak- 

 ing judgments, and solving problems ; and text books should 

 be so written as to develop this power. The research 

 worker who undertakes to write a text book for use in the 

 secondary school, but who does not know the needs of the 

 secondary school pupils, and who is not in touch with the 

 work of some department of education, is making a great 

 mistake, and is losing an opportunity to give us a work- 

 able, helpful book. 



I assume that I am talking to persons who are mostly 

 research workers. We in the secondary school acknow- 

 ledge our dependence on you, a very real dependence. But 

 when you are preparing young men and women to join our 

 ranks, and when you are writing text books which you hope 

 we will use, please remember that our interest must be 

 primarily in the teaching of the child, not in the subject. 



