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THE Master of Downing jokingly lays claim in his preface to the invention of a new system of education—by taking children for a voyage round the world “before the faculty of observation has been stifled by the study of dead languages, mathematics and other abstract subjects, which have no counterpart in our physical environment.” The stifling of the faculty of observation is, one must sorrowfully admit, too often a result of studies conducted in the manner of English schools; but the method of education by travel is surely at least as old as the days of the obsolete Grand Tour; and educational journeys for children form part of the routine of many continental schools.
A Run round the Empire; being the Log of Two Young People who Circumnavigated the Globe.
Written out by their father, Alex. Hill., Master of Downing College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. With 42 illustrations. Pp. viii + 286. (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., Ltd., 1897.)
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M., H. A Run round the Empire; being the Log of Two Young People who Circumnavigated the Globe. Nature 57, 316 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057316b0
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