Ancient Geography in Modern Education¹

Abstract

IT is the claim for geography that it co-ordinates regionally the results and conclusions of other sciences in respect to the natural phenomena of each and every region, and that, including, as it must, man's activities among the factors with which it is concerned, it stands in a peculiarly intimate relation with history, that brings it under the special notice of the art and applied science of education, but at the same time has made it so difficult in practice to assign to geographers their proper place and function in educational schemes. It is clearly urgent that those who have views as to what geographical training the ‘new stage in education’ shall offer should express them without delay.