Is it Important for Kids to Learn Geography?

[Rio Cana]

The real reason to support imperialism: fewer countries to remember!

But then we wouldn't have places like Guinea, Guyana, Guinea-Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea.

There names may sound alike but the nations you listed main official languages are all different. In the order you placed them they are - French, English, Portuguese and Spanish.

[Heloin]

But then we wouldn't have places like Guinea, Guyana, Guinea-Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea.

There names may sound alike but the nations you listed main official languages are all different. In the order you placed them they are - French, English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Yes, I know. That doesn't making any less stupid to have five nations with the same name (I forgot about Papua New Guinea, though it kinda gets a pass).

[Abarri]

Yes, coming from someone (me) who was into country profiles when I was a kid. (It actually all started when my parents got me a world flags chart at age 5.)

Geography is a broad discipline that helps show how locations can impact human culture and a way of getting to know our planet better. With geography one can know where a thing is located, why is it there, and how does it change or develop. It helps us understand how the physical world works.

[Bombadil]

Yes, coming from someone (me) who was into country profiles when I was a kid. (It actually all started when my parents got me a world flags chart at age 5.)

Due to my mother's fear of flying we used to do a lot of long-assed road trips when young. To pass time we always played a game whereby you name a country, city, town, river or continent and the next person needs to take the last letter to name a new place and so on.

That had us poring over maps to find new names, so you could proudly flourish, say, Makokou with 'it's a city in Gabon actually'..

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

The fact that flat earthers exist is proof enough that yes it should be taught.

[Aureumterra]

The fact that flat earthers exist is proof enough that yes it should be taught.

AnTArCTicA iZ a GyAnT wAlL

[Greed and Death]

It is important how will the working class kids we send to war know which countries have oil ?

[Pope Joan]

Why do so many people understand much more about celebrities and entertainment than they do about the real world in which they must live?

I LOVE geography. My brother and I had a globe in our bedroom, and we would quiz each other on international trivia with that as our reference.

We should also teach more Civics in schools.

[Socialist Workers Combine]

Due to my mother's fear of flying we used to do a lot of long-assed road trips when young. To pass time we always played a game whereby you name a country, city, town, river or continent and the next person needs to take the last letter to name a new place and so on.

Driving is probably more dangerous than flying lol

[Abarri]

Why do so many people understand much more about celebrities and entertainment than they do about the real world in which they must live?

I LOVE geography. My brother and I had a globe in our bedroom, and we would quiz each other on international trivia with that as our reference.

We should also teach more Civics in schools.

Probably because one is more likely to be exposed to pop culture than science whenever the TV or the Internet connection is turned on.

Now that you mentioned it, we never did have a "proper" globe in our house all my life., just standard-issue maps used as reference for schoolwork.

[Emazia]

Each person should, at the very least, be able to name every continent and every single country in Eurasia.

[New haven america]

Each person should, at the very least, be able to name every continent and every single country in Eurasia.

Got it, everyone should learn about Oceania.

[Nolo gap]

well there's geography and there's geography. they should certainly be able to find their way home from school if they miss the bus or it breaks down or something.
not sure how useful it is to know the capitals of every country on the planet and where they are. granted i have fun learning and knowing these things, and especially where all the rail lines are on the planet and what equipment runs on each of them and where each is manufactured, the maker and model number.

infrastructure is inveriable more valuble thn the collective egos of nations.
geography was one of my fun classes, it was a major relief and escape from all the propiganda in some of the others.

but important? well what is important to each person is not a one size fits all question.
what is important for people to understand, is how a affects b, and what that means for the kind of world they have to live in.

[New haven america]

I got a 60% on the Pacific test, I change my mind, geography's stupid.

[Luziyca]

It is pretty important, in my opinion. It is a good idea to know where the fuck you are compared to other areas.

[Badb Catha]

Of course. This should not even be up for debate.

[Bombadil]

Due to my mother's fear of flying we used to do a lot of long-assed road trips when young. To pass time we always played a game whereby you name a country, city, town, river or continent and the next person needs to take the last letter to name a new place and so on.

Driving is probably more dangerous than flying lol

Irrational fears are irrational.

[Kowani]

Of course. This should not even be up for debate.

There are a lot of things that shouldn’t be up for debate, but here we are.

[Korhal IVV]

I once asked random people in a New York street where North Korea is jn the map.

They had nooooo idea *facepalm*

[Risottia]

Studying geography is pretty useless. Take any direction and the free market will take you wherever you want to go.

[Kowani]

Studying geography is pretty useless. Take any direction and the free market will take you wherever you want to go.

The free market is a crappy GPS, it keeps crashing.

[Risottia]

Studying geography is pretty useless. Take any direction and the free market will take you wherever you want to go.

The free market is a crappy GPS, it keeps crashing.

That's totally because the government, which is entirely composed of welfare-sucking nanny-stater filthy commie saboteurs, violates the Free Market Fairy with unnecessary regulation and other SJW conspiracies like workers' rights. GPS is a governmental project, its satellites were launched by NASA (another filthy statist anti-market conspiracy), which proves objectively my point, and if you disagree I'll notify Zombie McCarthy ad the John Birch Society.

[Kowani]

The free market is a crappy GPS, it keeps crashing.

That's totally because the government, which is entirely composed of welfare-sucking nanny-stater filthy commie saboteurs, violates the Free Market Fairy with unnecessary regulation and other SJW conspiracies like workers' rights. GPS is a governmental project, its satellites were launched by NASA (another filthy statist anti-market conspiracy), which proves objectively my point, and if you disagree I'll notify Zombie McCarthy ad the John Birch Society.

Well done, sir.

[The Greater Low Countries]

Yes. Geography is essentially the context of which history is the content. So if you don't learn geography, history doesn't make any sense.

[Outer Sparta]

If high school kids don't know what the capital of Italy is or can't even point to New York on a blank map, then it's evident we need to teach geography.