Tilden designed the six principles to become instinctive habits for interpreters, not textbook rules

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Tilden sought to provide readers with the essential philosophy that underlies the art of interpretation. He did not specifically design the volume to serve as a textbook for college instruction for students of natural and cultural interpretation ; rather, because it also contained guiding principles for the interpretive craft, he intended for it to be read and truly used by the field interpreter. What Tilden wrote is timeless; then as now, the book is best if read and reread every once in a while. The six major principles, straightforward and easily remembered, were designed by Tilden to become second nature to field interpreters. He hoped that these principles would become so ingrained in the interpretive thought process that when giving programs, interpreters would instinctively rely upon them. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 48

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• XREF: Aligns with this reader’s stated purpose — six principles as a method intended to become second nature, applicable far beyond nature-center talks. — connects to: Six universal principles govern effective heritage interpretation — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 75