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socially significant environment of the entire world must be made understandable and meaningful to the learner — the manmade environment and the natural environment.
Today we are no longer satisfied with knowing what is or what happens within the boundaries of our valley or of our local community. Today our problems of social importance concern themselves with the outermost reaches of the world itself. Today the world is our environment — the world of nature and a world of diverse social and cultural patterns which men, over the face of the earth, have chosen to govern themselves by and live under. What does this imply?
The day of Mark Hopkins is past. No longer can school be described as a log with teacher on one end and pupil on the other. The teacher alone is no longer able to be a complete storehouse of experience from which the needs of the young learner may be satisfied. The magnitude of the task of education today is too broad.
Thus let us turn our attention first to the problem of defining the job of education today, and secondly to the problem of locating the means through which understandable, factual information and graphic presentation of our world environment can be brought into all classrooms and presented in meaningful and retainable ways to our learners.
Formerly the classroom teacher accepted certain limitations to learning. When contemplating the immediate environment, the able teacher took advantage of field-trip opportunitiesopportunities to visit local industries and local community institutions. She was well aware that real teaching is accomplished through realistic teaching, through the opportunity to observe at firsthand, to participate directly, to manipulate, to inquire about, and to examine closely and leisurely. The average teacher is usually satisfied with learning experiences which she presents to her learners as they actually exist; and, if they can be examined firsthand, leisurely discussed, and questioned. However, the same teacher today finds herself totally inade
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