386 



RKPOKT — 1897. 



II. — Revised Instructions to H.M. Inspectors. 



Wales, 1897. 



England and 



32. To obtain the mark ' good ' for Geography the scholars in Stan- 

 dard V. and upwards, not being half-timers, should be required to have 

 prepared three maps, one of which, selected by the Inspector, should be 

 drawn from memory on the day of inspection. Such maps, if of any part 

 of Great Britain and Ireland, should be accompanied by a scale of miles, 

 and if of large and distant countries by the lines of latitude and 

 longitude. Geographical teaching is sometimes too much restricted 

 to the pointing out of places on a map, or to the learning by heart 

 of definitions, statistics, or lists of proper names. Such details, if they 

 form the staple of the instruction, are very barren and uninteresting. 

 Geography, if taught to good purpose, includes also a description of the 

 physical aspects of the countries, and seeks to establish some associations 

 between the names of places and those historical, social, or industrial facts 

 which alone make the names of places worth remembering. It is espe- 

 cially desirable, in your examination of the Fourth and higher Standards, 

 that attention should be called to the English (sic !) Colonies and their 

 productions, government, and resources, and to those climatic and other 

 conditions which render our distant possessions suitable fields for emigra- 

 tion and for honourable enterprise. In order that the conditions laid 

 down for the geographical teaching of the lower classes may be fulfilled, a 

 globe and good maps, both of the county and of the parish or immediate 

 neighbourhood in which the school is situated, should form part of the 

 school apparatus, and the exact distances of a few near and familiar places 

 should be known. It is useful to mark on the floor of the schoolroom the 

 meridian line, in order that the points of the compass shall be known in 

 relation to the school itself, as well as on a map. 



III. — Code of Eegulations for Day Schools in Scotland, 1897. 



IV. — Programme of Instruction and Examination for Pupils op 

 National Schools, Ireland. 



First and Second Class. — No geography. 



Third Class. — 6. Geography. To know the outlines and leading 

 features of the Map of the World. 



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