Teaching Railway Geography by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 40.

Teaching Railway Geography

By Editor

WE clip the following from an exchange:—

“Mr. Labouchere recommends that children while studying geography be taught the courses of railways with the same care that they are taught those of rivers.”

The recommendation is certainly a good one; a knowledge of the location of railroads will be of perhaps more practical value to the student than of that of rivers. When we first saw the paragraph we thought that the recommendation came too late, it being our impression that all schools made that a part of their geographical course; but on second thought we believe that the impression was due to the fact that that feature of geography is so thoroughly taught in Healdsburg College.