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At least from my own experience, the map used the most throughout school was the Mercator projection. When I first discovered that Greenland and Canada were no
by WelkinFolk 25d ago
At least from my own experience, the map used the most throughout school was the Mercator projection.
When I first discovered that Greenland and Canada were not really that big during one of my many wikipedia tours as a kid, I was incredibly disappointed.
- GJim 25d agoAre you saying that as a kid, you never had a globe in your geography classroom? Seriously?
- WelkinFolk 24d agoI mean, of course we were shown a globe "once". My father had one at home too, though tucked away under a mountain of files and other things in his gigantic cabinet. But 99% of the time, a kid would see the world via maps in books, notebooks, projected onto the board, etc. And we didn't have a "geography classroom". We had one classroom for a set number of kids - like 8A, 8B, etc. (where "8" is the class/grade). The teachers would come in and go as per the period. The kids stayed right where they were.
- GJim 24d agoGood Lord! I can only suggest that your education system was in a state of failure.
- WelkinFolk 24d agoI mean, most nations aren't as rich as the "West" + East Asia. I come from a small town, but I still managed to do fine for myself.
- taskforcegemini 17d agonot sure if this was sarcastic, but it's pretty common like this in austria, and if there are problems with the education system then this isn't one of them