CSS Forums - Important Personalities of Geography

Geography is important, because it opens our eyes; a landscape is no longer a static feature, but a complex battleground of physical and human interactions. Local is no longer local, but a collision point for the interaction of many 'locals' drawn from a global stage. With technology increasingly drawing the world closer together, it is important that the role of Geography in helping the public in understanding this complex and unpredictable world is championed! [B](Tony Cassidy)[/B]

Peoples' interactions with each other and the planet are becoming more pronounced and complex. We are also realising more and more what a wonderful place it is. How can we NOT have a subject that teaches about where we live and about how we relate to places. So many kids (not all admittedly) love geography, simply because it teaches them about this amazing place we live in and many will retain this knowledge forever. How many people can remember how to do long division and how many remember their rainforest lessons? Geography is a wonderful and fully academic subject, needed more now than ever. [B](William Heaton) [/B]

Geography is important because it allows us to understand the world we live in and make independent, informed decisions using this understanding.
[B](Paul Goodstadt)[/B]

Geography helps us think more intelligently about ourselves, how to live and the futures that we may need to face. It succeeds in doing this because as a subject it holds things together, in place, across the physical and human domains. It helps us understand the significance of scale and connectedness.
[B](David Lambert)[/B]

Geography is important because without it we will never overcome the serious global issues that we face today - and tomorrow. Geography knowledge is POWER!
[B](Simon Beevers)[/B]

It has it's feet in the ground and it's head in the clouds.
[B](Valerie Banks)[/B]

In a world where green issues, and a need to learn about the world to increase understanding of current affairs are so important, it is silly that the subject which is the obvious vehicle to deliver and discuss these is being ignored. Does the media really want to see a better place??? Delivering responsible messages about the world in a responsible way is surely the way forward. [B](Anon) [/B]

Geography is the what of where. It is vitally important for understanding the world around us. Geographers question the world and seek to understand it, they explain why things are where they are. No other subject at school links so many factors together as one. Geographers learn vital skills like map reading, problem solving, decision making. They learn to link scientific factors alongside sociological, psychological and historical reasons for why the world is as it is. Geography is on the news everyday, from war in the middle east, to closing of factories in the midlands, to farming subsidy arguments in Brussels, to global climate change the list in endless.
[B](Francesca Carter)[/B]

In an increasingly globalised world the importance of appreciating variation and difference is something geographers are passionate about.
[B](Steve Wyn Williams)[/B]

affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
[B]Lance Loud[/B]

Everything has to do with geography.
[B]Judy Martz[/B]

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
[B]John F. Kennedy[/B]

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
[B]Yves Tanguy[/B]

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
[B]Eric Bentley[/B]