Children get the wrong idea about the earth from globes. We tend to think that the North Pole is up
and the South Pole is down. Actually,
there is no up and down in space; humans in the northern hemisphere have just made
the maps that way for centuries.
To be
accurate, the northern hemisphere countries should be readable on a globe when
the north pole is viewed at the top, and the countries in the southern
hemisphere should be readable when the glove is rotated and the south pole is
viewed at the top.
Or an alternative offering: present it both ways.
The way it
is now subliminally suggest that the countries in the northern hemisphere are
more important than the southern countries,
That is not
a fucking snow flake observation.
We need to present
science, history and geography factually, and in a way to make children think.
Math can
take care of itself.
the Ol’Buzzard
