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[History of Kooreelah Station] [microform]

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mc N 2225 JAFp HIST 827
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[S.l. : s.n. , 1907]
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LOCAL HISTORY.  

 

38141 Education Gaz. mono  

T\- comparatively new country Midi as ours one lacks  

th* opportunity which is so easily obtained in older lands  

o' visitin'!! scenes associated with the greatest events of  

national life, or with the stories of the great national  

heroes. We cannot personally conduct our pupils to “ the  

p’ace where England’s ancient barons, clad in arms, and  

s-ern in conquest, did challenge and secure the charter of  

their freedom ”; nor can we gaze with them upon the very  

stot where Earl Simon and his doughty Londoners put the  

Royal troops to shame; nor walk with them across those  

R?’f-same fields where good old Noll drilled his trusty Iron-  

sides; nor wander with them through the forests and along  

the banks of that quiet stream where Will Shakespeare spent  

h's youth. No, here we lack “ that inspiration to high,  

divine, and noble thinking ” which comes of personal  

contact with places hallowed by ancient associations  

Robert Browning, when on voyage from England to  

his beloved Italy, was once sailing along the southern  

coast of Spain. ’ St. Vincent lay behind him, with its  

record of battle nobly fought and victory nobly won;  

abeam lay Trafalgar, with its mingled message of joy and  

sorrow, its glorious and inspiriting call to duty; ahead  

s:ood the honeycombed rock-fortress of Gibraltar. And  

memories of the great events associated with these names  

came crowding upon the poet’s mind, prompting the  

thought—  

“ Here and here did England help me,  

How can help England ”  

Sohoolbovs are not all Brownings, but questions of similar  

moral import wilt naturally occur to them when, under  

wise and judicious guidance, they are brought into personal  

touch with historical localities.  

But the interest which comes of that kind of reality  

we Australians lack. Still there are some compensations.  

For our very youth, as civilised community, affords us  

unrivalled opportunities of leading the learner to realise  

what are the sources of knowledge on some portions of  

history.  

In nearly every locality of our century-old State there  

are now living men who can give first or second-hand  

information as to the genesis of the settlement. Here,  

then, we have abundant opportunity for making point of  

departure for history teaching! Teachers and pupils  

in even the smallest school may co-operate in gathering  

the materials for local history. Thus will the pupils  

learn how histories are first written, their interest will  

be aroused from the very start, their self-activity will  

be. profitably exercised, and, perchance, in some obscure  

village the foundation of career as research student  

will be well and surely laid.  

In those schools fortunately placed near an explorer  

route, or within hail of the landmarks named by ook,  

or the coastal features surveyed and chartered by Flinders  

and Bass, the next step will naturally suggest itself.  

Thence, ever broadening out, will come in turn the story  

of our State, of our Island-continent, of our Nation.  

From the life of the people in our own locality we may  

expand oiA teaching to the life of our nation as whole.  

Thence wo may go on to study the features which differen-  

tiate our nation from others, and to trace the genesis and  

development of those civic duties which it is ours to exercise  

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