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President of the Romanian Academy, Ioan-Aurel Pop, advocates keeping history and geography as independent disciplines in the school curriculum, arguing that these subjects help build general culture and orientation in contemporary life, as well as elementary orientation in space. What education managers do not understand is something very simple: history means general culture and orientation in contemporary life, not superfluous data and facts about a world long bygone. And geography means elementary orientation in space, and not names that must be memorized. Today, children and youth have the great opportunity to travel, to see the world, to enjoy the great creations of mankind from all times and in all spaces, from prehistory to the era of cosmic flights and from Lapland to Patagonia. If we no longer learn history and geography, if we despise these forms of adaptation to life, if we are afraid of their contents, we will end up traveling to Latin America and