On Geography Development Education

The development problems of education and people are an eternal theme of education. The key idea that we must establish is to educate for students' development. Promoting development should be the key value of education. Education should take "people" as the center, and it should be a harmonious ecosystem which is highly coordinating with natural environment and social environment. In order to realize the sustainable development of mankind, economy, society and nature, we should fully develop people' s individual character, respect human rights, promote people' s healthy, overall and harmonious development on their own initiative. The most essential task of basic education lies in developing the latent energy of people and fostering the capacity of individual development on their own. Geography education should take developing the idea and ability ofstudents' healthy development on their own initiative as the key value. The basic foothold ofgeo-graphy education is to let the students develop in many aspects on their own initiative. The essence of teaching process is to create a kind of more effective environment which will stimulate the students' intelligence and creativity mutually. Let the students arouse each other' s creativity, and they are sure to produce intelligence which will be of benefit to them for life.Geography education which bases on the development of students' should pursue a new realm: (1) The real study is to enrich one' s intelligence with one' s heart and soul. (2) Knowledge might not be power, only the application of knowledge is real power, and the creative application of knowledge is intelligence. (3) The unique value of geography teaching is to make the students have geography intelligence ?namely through comprehensive and global thinking with sense of space, the students will use geography knowledge creatively , then we will really promote the sustainable development of people, nature and society.