ABSTRACT
The college-educated person should achieve some understanding of the actual geographic spatial processes: settlement, location decisions, and conflicts, regionalization, migration, trade, international territorial conflict, and so forth. Geographic education also reflects the new tendency, although incompletely. Despite the fact that geography, as a distinct subject, is much more prevalent in the Soviet school system than in the United States, Soviet and American respondents reflect a strong degree of consensus in their answers to the question of improving the teaching of geography. In the case of the general public, geography is known as either the dull course taken by many in the seventh grade, or as a popular field. Geographical education reflects the social order of society and the extent and direction of the development of geographical science. In terms of the importance of ecological problems and the optimal use of the possibilities of geographical science, it is possible to outline the following recommendations for the curricula.
