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University of Northern Iowa

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Misleading Terms, Alison Aitchison, Marguerite Uttley Mar 1930

Misleading Terms, Alison Aitchison, Marguerite Uttley

Science Bulletin

"Tradition is the enemy of progress." Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, advises young people to adopt this as their slogan if they wish to make for themselves successful pl aces in the business world. To train these embryo business men and women is the business of the public schools. Geography contributes to training for commerce more than any other science. Have geography teachers adopted the same slogan?


Has Commercial Geography Been Left On Your Doorstep, Alison E. Aitchison May 1929

Has Commercial Geography Been Left On Your Doorstep, Alison E. Aitchison

Science Bulletin

If one of the chief aims of a teacher is to induce her pupils to know and love a subject which she herself knows and loves, then commercial geography in many an Iowa high school is in a sorry plight. In cases too numerous to cite, the home econ- omics teacher, the mathematics teacher, the physics teacher, the English teacher, - in fact anyone who is so unfortunate as to have one period of the day unfilled by his or her own special subject, - Is likely to have that foundling child, commercial geography, left on the doorstep.