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more worrying than the lack of geography education are the responses that the country/area the bombers happen to originate from now needs to be bombed

having said that I doubt the average British Chav is going to know much about any countries South of the USA aside from perhaps Mexico...

Brazil and / or Argentina.

am i the only person in the world who never saw a map of the world at school? At no point in any geography lesson was a map of the world used. weird.

now you mention it, I don't ever remember learning about global geographic locations, but i know my ox bow lakes

I also don't remember ever learning about geographic locations in geography.

I do however remember the teacher sitting us all down to watch a video on 'sand and gravel extraction' it had a stupid intro of said title, which I immediately sung loudly taking the piss and spent the rest of the class in the hall, kicked out about 1 minute into the lesson, a personal best.

I was taught world stuff in geography in juniors and first few years of comprehensive. It wasn't until later (year 9?) that oxbow lates and geology stuff came into it.

all i rmember is the most animated teach talking about scoops and scallows which were what the glaciers did round us to create the particular landscape we lived in. memorable. about the only lesson that was. but nowt to do with countries and where they are. glad im not the only one.

should have been more than physical geography tbh... social geography too...

While the teacher didn't point at a world map or get us to learn the names of countries we did learn about different regions, peoples etc.. too

All I remember was some quiz/test on countries and capitals, aged about 10 or 11 I think.

I hated geography at school, as soon as it was an "option" I opted for other things instead.

And now I spend a large amount of my working life looking at / reading / creating maps, doing geological things :|

I don't think I ever learnt about the globe, or many countries at all in geography. Doing it at GCSE, my coursework and exams were on central business districts, favelas, the Amazon rainforest and a large section on Niagara falls with a few others. You would think more attention would be paid to teaching basic world geography.

Same here, all about erosion and the amazon. History was the same - studied crazy amounts of detail about what layers roman roads where composed of and early agricultural methods, but nothing about WW2 or other significant events. It's a good job I like reading!!

When I was at school we had something called a Basic Geography Certficate, I passed with something like 80% and I think it did cover things such as major countries and capitals, UK geography, landmarks like mountain ranges etc but I think it had absolutely no real world merit.

What you have to remember about 'Merica is most of them will never leave the continent, they have the attitude that its so big why bother when there is already plenty to see there. They are right in that it is worth seeing all the USA has to offer but not bothered to learn basic facts about the rest of the world is pretty ignorant.

I do wonder how many of us know the UK well, such as all the counties and their locations?

One of my abiding memories of secondary school is of my Geography teacher looking really hurt and saying "But I thought you LIKED Geography!" when I told him I wasn't taking it for GCSE.

I really don't remember what we learned in those lessons, as far as physical country locations go though I'm pretty sure I learned most of what I know from video games like World Empire. Gotta know where a country is before you can send tanks there