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Navigation and the Schools: II.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1976

Extract

Most professional navigators would agree that navigation could play a useful role in general education. How are teachers to be convinced of this and how are they to be persuaded that its introduction is desirable ? If navigation is to be introduced as an academic subject into the school curriculum we must endeavour to remove the mystique with which it is often surrounded and dispel the suggestion that it is an art rather than a science. The notion that successful sailormen must have a seafaring background has been proved wrong time and again; let us also dispense with the misconception that good navigators are born with a gift similar to that of a homing pigeon. Man has a natural instinct to explore and find his way; the purpose of navigation in education should be to exploit and develop this natural instinct to the full.

Type
Navigation and the Schools
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1976

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