Geography
29/03/23 19:25
I have learned in working with the Quichua that most cannot read a map. I can imagine that in the mountains with few roads, you navigate mostly by looking at the mountains. Luis Ortiz (who lives way up in the Andes Mountains in "Sablog") calls me to ask for help in teaching a bible geography class. He sends me the class syllabus. It has no maps! How can you teach a geography class without maps? He even confessed to me that he's not very good with maps. So I sent him some maps from a Bible atlas. Then we had our own class: we reviewed several maps of both Old and New Testament. Also, from my experience with the Quichua, I find the best way to teach is to have the students draw/copy the map on the clean sheet of paper. Then ask them to find various places on the map. He's teaching this course by petition of the main indigenous seminary in Colta, Chimborazo. So I have the privilege of teaching the teacher.