10. To cap off your pleasure and satisfaction in teaching geography, you must appreciate the integrative nature of the subject. The early giants of geography, the ones who defined the discipline and gave it its stature among the world’s major disciplines, made much of synthesis. It was all very well to observe hosts of phenomena taking place in, and on the Earth and to analyze those observations. But it was not truly a geographical study until these observations could be synthesized to provide a holistic view of the community, the area, or the region.