That said, I took a college cultural geography course and really didn't get a lot out of it I didn't already know from other disciplines.
What is so disheartening to me — and it’s nothing new — is how so few people know something as simple to learn as the cardinal points. I have to give directions to my workplace at least a few times every week, over the phone, and besides the usual problems (such as jackoffs who have to be completely in charge, even in a conversation where they purport to seek information), one big one is complete ignorance of what direction they’re headed. And of course, there are those who don’t know how to read, apparently, so they confuse I-196 with I-96; even people who live in Holland or that general direction persist in referring to both as “96”. “I’m coming there from Holland, we’re driving along 96.” That’s quite a feat.