Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies

Appendix C orbit of civilization? That phrase was written in metropolitan New York and not by one whose shoes still carry the dust of Asia . Asia has borrowed some of our tricks . Its people are not swinging in our orbit in even the modest sense of that phrase .

Page 50, Par. 2, bottom of page, line 4: Change the word "factors" to "conditions ." Continuing with the same phrase "the evolution of human culture" change to "the volution and spread of human cultures ." In the next line, after the word "globe" insert "and the diverse forms of exploitation ." Two lines farther down, after the word "forests" insert "and trading areas ."

Page 57, Par. 7: I take serious exception to the form of this paragraph . It assumes that the child in his earliest years of schooling knows nothing of the life about him and that he should know that first . As a matter of fact, quite a good deal is known by children, about neighborhood, town, and community .

More can be taught rather readily . But there is no reason why the imagination-evoking study of distant peoples should not be introduced at the same time . It is not necessarily a case of first the community and then the distant place, but the community and the distant place at one and the same time by comparative methods . Most children find home geography pretty dull. They like to know about strange peoples, and it appears that some of the remote peoples of the world live under such simple conditions that they X66