Geography is one of the oldest and most perennial disciplines of knowledge taught and learned in the global education system. It is practically omnipresent in the curriculum of the history of European education. For better or for worse, it has expressed the challenges of our contemporary societies, going beyond the strict training of younger generations or a particular type of scientific knowledge. Geography has been more about common sense than the specificity that nobles the many and most recent scientific disciplinary affirmations. What it has achieved as a “liberal art,” a design that has always had difficulty imposing, has faded into epistemological identity. Of course, this is irrelevant outside a corporate framework. Knowledge advances regardless of its regimentation. Whatever meaning it has, or whatever we want to give it, geography has, over time, been a field of civic education. There is, however, a semantic and operational heritage that needs to be reconstructed and valued, not because it can be a guarantee of professional continuity and identity for geographers, but because of its potential to demonstrate a way of being, above all, in the educational process and decision support. It is necessary to return to reflecting and exercising a critical spirit, with a philosophical, social, and political scope, as a scientific-pedagogical objective, handling the corporeality of the territory rather than being dazzled by permanent innovation or by all the technological, uncritical, and subservient followings, so often only to justify disciplinary survival. We will discuss the resurgence of locally based geography, articulated in the perennial mechanism that gives it its raison d’être: scale and orientation. In valuing direct and live interaction, realising the exploratory vocation and itinerary attitude it contains. Just as sociology does not make sense without social intervention, economics without finance, history without archives, there is no geography without being on the ground. Geography teachers are the officiants of democratically recognised geography, those who give it its true raison d’être in the epistemological broth that is boiling today.