ABSTRACT
In the period after the Second World War, geography came of age in the secondary schools of Great Britain. In a country like Britain, with its very high urban percentages, some teachers have believed it necessary to attempt a more detailed exposition of the factors operating in urban geography than is normally offered in school regional geography. Young graduates entering the schools seem often to find themselves greatly out of sympathy with the type of geography they are asked to teach. The Geographical Association has a committee studying ‘The Role of Models and Quantitative Techniques in Geographical Teaching,’ initiated because it became plain that there was a great need for such a body to co-ordinate some of the work being done. A subject like geography is taken by thousands of children of a very wide range of ability, most of whom have no special or lasting interest in the subject from a professional point of view.
