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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Although I`ve a keen interest in palaeotology..I can`t really see the point of Geography...it hasn`t really benefited my life much since leaving school.....as interesting as subduction might be.....

I think giving kids a lesson in say ....relationships..or philosophy would benefit them far more....

What do you think ?..an open question ...

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By *iceguydaveMan
over a year ago

Monmouth

My lad's doing a Geography GCSE paper today, and he was moaning this morning that it's all about things like tourism in the Maldives.. as he was going out the door he said 'anyway, where IS the Maldives?' Good luck to him on that Geography exam

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

yes i understand what u mean but geography can be usefull but things like signs logrithms etc no--i used to teach home education

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By *inktherapyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

I have an o level in 'classics in translation' - basically we studied The Iliad and some other classic texts and it was a literature exam. Not useful - but interesting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hmmmm,,,,, a keen interest in “Palaeotology” eh!!! ,,,,,,, is that anything like Paleontology or Palaeontology even,,,,,,, my, my so many ologys !!!!!

Hey, now come on!!.... shurrup afore ya go taking the huff!!!....., if it weren’t me it would have been someone else…… and lets face it,, Being a natural irritant comes so easily to me…..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think its important as alot of people get to understand different cultures through geography, travel is in my opinion one of the best ways to broaden the mind and see the bigger picture. Geography helped me when i wanted to go somewhere special for six months. I spent alot of time deciding where the best place was. I chose south africa in the end. It had it all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The best lessons they can teach in todays schools are.

1. how to live life on the dole

2. a hundred and one things you can do with a potato

3. where the nearest gum clinic is.?

4. How to juggle half a dozen kids so it doesnt interfere with social life.?

5. where to buy the cheapest booze, fags and drugs ?

6. how to succeed when not bieng able to read and write

Forget the curriculum , they havent got a clue

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My daughter loves it, but her recent obsession with volcanoes is boring the tits off me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The best lessons they can teach in todays schools are.

1. how to live life on the dole

2. a hundred and one things you can do with a potato

3. where the nearest gum clinic is.?

4. How to juggle half a dozen kids so it doesnt interfere with social life.?

5. where to buy the cheapest booze, fags and drugs ?

6. how to succeed when not bieng able to read and write

Forget the curriculum , they havent got a clue

I think they should all be directed to the fab forums, seems there's lots of experts on every subject in here

Who needs school

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Hmmmm,,,,, a keen interest in “Palaeotology” eh!!! ,,,,,,, is that anything like Paleontology or Palaeontology even,,,,,,, my, my so many ologys !!!!!

Hey, now come on!!.... shurrup afore ya go taking the huff!!!....., if it weren’t me it would have been someone else…… and lets face it,, Being a natural irritant comes so easily to me…..

hahaha ....sometimes just ickle sometimes.......don`t yer feel....like.....erm......whats it .....a Fool.....thats rhetorical by the way ....munchkin

I need a brush up on me ology`s.....and fecking English.....Damn !! Damn !!.....jeez !!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The best lessons they can teach in todays schools are.

1. how to live life on the dole

2. a hundred and one things you can do with a potato

3. where the nearest gum clinic is.?

4. How to juggle half a dozen kids so it doesnt interfere with social life.?

5. where to buy the cheapest booze, fags and drugs ?

6. how to succeed when not bieng able to read and write

Forget the curriculum , they havent got a clue

I think they should all be directed to the fab forums, seems there's lots of experts on every subject in here

Who needs school

No expert, just a realist.

School is wasted on todays youth.

Thick as shite

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

as a fairly recent school leaver i feel that geography around the uk would have been better. we spent ages learning about other countries ive no intention of ever going too

i also feel that british history would have been better and more detailed.

i for gcse took a subject called social and enviromental studdies that taught me about self employment, family life and parentin, money management, business, drugs and i thought it was by far the best thing i ever did

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Geography - if translated literally means landmapping but it's so much more.

Understanding our place , as Earth, in the universe.

Demographics. Why people move from one place to another.

Land formation. Soils and what will or wont grow in them.

There's far too much to it for me to remember or explain BUT I do know that people with geographical knowledge are much sort after......

They have insights into what is lacking or needed in most countries.

They are good at statistics

They understand why certain populations behave the way they do and how much of our lives is goverened by enviroment.

They can help with vital things such as knowing if materials ,buildings etc are going to withstand the weather of the area they are built in.

They know about economics, gross products, national products, livelihoods etc

They are sought in many industries. Geography isn't just knowing capital cities.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Is there any evidence that the youth of today are more likely to leave school 'thick' than they were Ten or Twenty years ago?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nah

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"as a fairly recent school leaver i feel that geography around the uk would have been better. we spent ages learning about other countries ive no intention of ever going too

i also feel that british history would have been better and more detailed.

Shows how far this crusty is outa touch wid things....sounds a useful subject...social stuff...

I think philosophy if taught in an entertaining way, would help our kids enourmously.....however that ain`t gona happen .....learn by rote...etc.....but thats a churlish view mabye....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Learning by rote ?

How far back did you n the good Dr. travel ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Learning by rote ?

How far back did you n the good Dr. travel ?"

Lol... I remember inkwells Granny.....

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Learning by rote ?

How far back did you n the good Dr. travel ?

Lol... I remember inkwells Granny....."

And bloody detention...ahem !!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I dont think it matters so much what the subject is to be truthful

i learnt more in the subjects i enjoyed, even it doesnt have much 'practical' purpose in the big wide world, id still have felt id learnt more than do crap in a subject deemed worthwile.

make sense?

take art, not really practical but i loved it and achieved 'A*'.. French on the otherhand i didnt like so much and got a 'C'

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I dont think it matters so much what the subject is to be truthful

i learnt more in the subjects i enjoyed, even it doesnt have much 'practical' purpose in the big wide world, id still have felt id learnt more than do crap in a subject deemed worthwile.

make sense?

take art, not really practical but i loved it and achieved 'A*'.. French on the otherhand i didnt like so much and got a 'C'"

Yeah..perfect sense....I think the quality of the teaching is important .....inspire imaginations and all that...

I went to loads of schools....forces...civvy street..public school.....and left with D`s in every subject ..except metalwork..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I dont think it matters so much what the subject is to be truthful

i learnt more in the subjects i enjoyed, even it doesnt have much 'practical' purpose in the big wide world, id still have felt id learnt more than do crap in a subject deemed worthwile.

make sense?

take art, not really practical but i loved it and achieved 'A*'.. French on the otherhand i didnt like so much and got a 'C'

Yeah..perfect sense....I think the quality of the teaching is important .....inspire imaginations and all that...

I went to loads of schools....forces...civvy street..public school.....and left with D`s in every subject ..except metalwork.."

still makes me think an A* although looks good is completely useless to me,, where as a C in french might come in handy one day....

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I dont think it matters so much what the subject is to be truthful

i learnt more in the subjects i enjoyed, even it doesnt have much 'practical' purpose in the big wide world, id still have felt id learnt more than do crap in a subject deemed worthwile.

make sense?

take art, not really practical but i loved it and achieved 'A*'.. French on the otherhand i didnt like so much and got a 'C'

Yeah..perfect sense....I think the quality of the teaching is important .....inspire imaginations and all that...

I went to loads of schools....forces...civvy street..public school.....and left with D`s in every subject ..except metalwork..

still makes me think an A* although looks good is completely useless to me,, where as a C in french might come in handy one day...."

Hey !!...I like that type of thinking

I employed a couple of lads ..18 yr olds who were the pick of the bunch ....but some days..you couldn`t make a short plank outa both of em put together....good lads with reasonable qualifications...but ain`t been taught the art of thinking .....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

still makes me think an A* although looks good is completely useless to me,, where as a C in french might come in handy one day....

Hey !!...I like that type of thinking

glad someone likes my way in thinking lol

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By *nvictusMan
over a year ago

Beeston

"Although I`ve a keen interest in palaeotology..I can`t really see the point of Geography...it hasn`t really benefited my life much since leaving school.....as interesting as subduction might be.....

I think giving kids a lesson in say ....relationships..or philosophy would benefit them far more....

What do you think ?..an open question ..."

Every time I go for a long drive and look around at the scenery or see an aerial view on TV I say to myself "oh look, an ox-bow lake".

So yes, Geography is a regular and important part of my life I would feel deeply unhappy without.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

All i was taught in geography was about arable farming, ok if your going to be a farmer. Got my A levels in socialogy, physcology and english literature, not that its ever done me any good

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Depends on how it's taught, no one is interested in learning long lists of terminology unless they are going to specialise.

It is however closely linked to the people who inhabit the geography and their culture in that respect it is extremely interesting.

Other applications can be commercial, oil, gold, diamonds, phosphates, coal, possible crops, or preventative, drought, flood, earthquake, volcanic activity etc. There are surely many more uses also.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not to mention the "book of history" written within geographic features.

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By *athnBobCouple
over a year ago

sandwell

Thats because they are taught to pass exams

Parents want to send their kids to the best school... demand some sort of measurement ... government introduces league tables .... failing schools are closed ... schools teach to the test and introduce pointless GCSE (media studies, health and social care etc).

Therefore blame the parents

When I left school you were considered bright if you did 5 'O'levels, 6 and you were a child genius.

My son will leave school this summer with 14!!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Personally I think you should learn as much as you can, and get in to the habit of learning as much as you can, keep an open mind, I had an average education at a normal school ,looking back it wasn’t till after I left school that I started to learn. Ever day can be a school day if you keep an open mind and ask the right questions.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't know how much geography has changed these days in school but when I was taught it was far more than knowing where places were. You learned about different time zones and world seasons and climate, orienteering, imports and exports of commodities leading to basic economics, population, geology, how the world was formed etc etc. I just think it was one of those subjects that has been extremely useful throughout life.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I loved geography when i was at school.

I did CSE geography and passed

I can't remember a single thing about it

give me a map or an atlas tho and i'll look at it all day That might be cos of the pretty colours and i have an unhealthy obsession with google earth. not the space one tho,its stupid and i don't live there

so..yeah..geography!..its ok

Americans are much more on, they have a handy tool to teach their citizens geography

its called War

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I don't know how much geography has changed these days in school but when I was taught it was far more than knowing where places were. You learned about different time zones and world seasons and climate, orienteering, imports and exports of commodities leading to basic economics, population, geology, how the world was formed etc etc. I just think it was one of those subjects that has been extremely useful throughout life. "

Queer isn`t it ....Geography fer us, was more about how volcanoes were built...mantles etc....or longshore drift....just geology really ..

Never broadened out into anything else ....

We did enviromental studies as a seperate subject .....

I can remember all the class, splitting into trio`s and going out into the chicken run ...catching a chicken ...wringing its neck....dressing and cooking it..and then eating it .....a valuable lesson ...

Geography was a throw away subject tho really ....how about ...RE.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I loved geography when i was at school.

I did CSE geography and passed

I can't remember a single thing about it

so..yeah..geography!..its ok

Americans are much more on, they have a handy tool to teach their citizens geography

its called War

War what is its good for...! Making lots of money!

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

The best thing a teacher can give a child is an inquisitiveness and an interest in the world that builds into a lifetime of self-improvement.

If learning about fjord creation is how they achieve that, that's fine by me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The best thing a teacher can give a child is an inquisitiveness and an interest in the world that builds into a lifetime of self-improvement.

I had a teacher who did exactly that. He was a hippy and he went to India in 1978 but Steve Smith of Tulse Hill School I salute you...and thanks

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I loved geography when i was at school.

I did CSE geography and passed

I can't remember a single thing about it

so..yeah..geography!..its ok

Americans are much more on, they have a handy tool to teach their citizens geography

its called War

War what is its good for...! Making lots of money!

Never a statement ever made with truth running thru it ....

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"The best thing a teacher can give a child is an inquisitiveness and an interest in the world that builds into a lifetime of self-improvement.

I had a teacher who did exactly that. He was a hippy and he went to India in 1978 but Steve Smith of Tulse Hill School I salute you...and thanks"

Yeah...you can remember a certain teacher, can`t you ....

I remember a school....an army school at that ....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The best thing a teacher can give a child is an inquisitiveness and an interest in the world that builds into a lifetime of self-improvement.

If learning about fjord creation is how they achieve that, that's fine by me."

My inspirational teachers were mad as hatters but we still remember them. One used to stand on the bench in physics with the shell of an old telivision in his arms. He would drop it to introduce the subject of gravity. Certainly got our attention. The chemistry teacher would ask us what the chemical symbol for salt was. We would say S-O sir. No he would boom Esso is the sign of happy motoring. I still think of him when I see an esso logo!

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