The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-28
PRETTY TEACHERS WILL
 VISIT LONGSHOREMEN
Commercial Geography Students of New York University Summer School Will See How Imports and Exports Are Handled-Inland Pupils to Get Benefit of
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 To give the teachers an opportunity of observing how the great subway and jun nel systems which handle passengers and also some of the freight traffic of this city are managed trips will be taken tn several special points along these lines where officials of the companies will ex plain the systems by which the thousands of cars are operated.
 Other excursions will be made to the Basin, where canal boats congregate, and the great inland trade which is handled through these boats will be thoroughly explained Grain elevators will be visited and also the markets for raw material, such as the fish market. The remainder of the itinerary which has been planned for students of the country includes trips to wholesale and retail districts, factories, and printing and publishing interests, to- gether with such other manufacturing in- terests in and about the city as can be readily reached.
 In one of these excursions the students will visit the pottery district of New Jer- sey and the silk manufacturies of the same state
 pr. Charles T. McFarlane, who will conduct this new type of geography course at the summer school, said re- gently that prominent educators have ap- preciated for some time that new method of teaching geography was needed in the schools of this country. Contin- uing he said
 ''The teaching of geography in it's every branch has greatly changed during the past 20 to 25 years. During that time the notion has grown, and has now come to be a conviction, that the proper way to begin the study with children is to take them out of doors in their home locality to study the physical and industrial condi- tions as they are found there. This movement has gone so far that the state department of education in its elementary syllabus prepared for the public schools for the state of New York, advocates this sort of work as introductory work in geography.
 'sThe taking of geographical excursions is absolutely necessary Tor this sort OF study, and it has been already practised in the better class of schools in different parts of our country for some time. Of course, in many of the inland states it Is e physical impossibility to take children to water fronts to study commerce, and it is in these states that the value of the practically trained teacher of commercial geography is most apparent.
 Such a teacher has had the opportunity to study water front commerce, and hence is better fitted to paint a vivid word picture for her pupils of the hand ling of imports and exports than the teacher who has merely acquired her knowledge from textbooks. Educators recognize this fact, and there is grow ing demand for teachers who can make the subject of commercial geography in terestng to pupils"
 Among the states which will send pretty "schoolmarms'' to take up the practical study of commercial geography at New York university this summer are New York Massachusetts, Pennsylvania. Rhode Island New Jersey, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio Indiana, Iowa and Kentucky number of teachers from the western states who are to attend the National Educational Associations convention at Cleveland this year will also signify their intention of coming on to New York to take up this course as soon as the con vention is over.