10 Ten Reasons Why Every Student Should Study Geography
Geographic Education
Enseignement de la géographie
To understand basic physical systems that affect everyday life (e.g. earth-sun relationships,
water cycles, wind and ocean currents).
To learn the location of places and the physical and cultural characteristics of those places
in order to function more effectively in our increasingly interdependent world.
To understand the geography of past times and how geography has played important
roles in the evolution of people, their ideas, places and environments.
To develop a mental map of your community, province or territory, country and the world
so that you can understand the “where” of places and events.
To explain how the processes of human and physical systems have arranged and
sometimes changed the surface of the Earth.
To understand the spatial organization of society and see order in what often appears to
be random scattering of people and places.
To recognize spatial distributions at all scales – local and worldwide – in order to
understand the complex connectivity of people and places.
To be able to make sensible judgements about matters involving relationships between the
physical environment and society.
To appreciate Earth as the homeland of humankind and provide insight for wise
management decisions about how the planet’s resources should be used.
To understand global interdependence and to become a better global citizen.
