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Comment by Bruce Deitrick Price on January 26, 2018 at 4:31pm

Somebody left an interesting comment on one of my articles.... He was taught geography by nuns, many years ago. He mentioned that there were endless competitions, sometimes boys against girls, sometimes A-B against V-Z. He said the children loved competitions and took great pride in doing well. This  person also commented that they built  3-D models, from plaster of Paris or newspapers or whatever, of shorelines, ports, mountains, any natural features. Such that many years later he remembered these features with great exactness..... Also, many competition started off with every student standing. When somebody missed a question, they had to sit down. The goal was to be the last person standing. But I particularly like that feature of standing up. We need to put more physical activity into intellectual activities. My impression is that these days children don't learn geography. So I say use the nuns' techniques.