Don't Know Much About Geography Quotes

“Memorizing information is valuable but only if you're able to make some sense of the information and put it into a useful context. Isn't it much better if we can attach something tangible to that information?”
― Kenneth C. Davis, Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned

“1525 French physician Jean Fernel is the first to calculate the length of a degree of latitude at very near its accepted length of 110.567 kilometers at the equator.”
― Kenneth C. Davis, Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned

“Of course, on a map oriented along the lines of this jingle: North to the ceiling, South to the floor, West to the window, East to the door it did appear that the Nile River flowed up. I can’t tell you much else about what happened in that classroom that year.”
― Kenneth C. Davis, Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned