EDUCATION.
The Teaching of Geography in France. By E. M. Butterworth. (Blackie. 2s. 6d. net.) The author, as a Gilchrist Geography Student, spent some months in France in 1920-21, working from Paris, Grenoble and Strasbourg, in order to study the French methods of teaching her subject. Her report is clear, precise and valuable. As she knew the English practice before she went to France; her comparisons are fair and discriminating. She does not undervalue the greater freedom which the English teacher enjoys, but -she thinks that under the French system the average child learns more geography and the general standard of knowledge is higher. Teachers of geography are not the only persons interested in education who may read this clever little book with profit.
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