"The purpose of the geography curriculum was to come to know the narrower and
broader Fatherland and to awaken one’s love of it. . . . From [merely learning the names
of] the many rivers and mountains one will not see all the Serbian lands, not even the
heroic and unfortunate field of Kosovo [on which the Ottomans defeated the Serbs in
1389]; from the many rivers and mountains children do not see that there are more Serbs
living outside Serbia than in Serbia; they do not see that Serbia is surrounded on all sides
by Serbian lands; from the many mountains and rivers we do not see that, were it not for
the surrounding Serbs, Serbia would be a small island that foreign waves would quickly
inundate and destroy; and, if there were no Serbia, the remainder of Serbdom would feel
as though it did not have a heart." - Report to the Serbian Teachers’ Association, 1911–1912.
In the interwar period, educators in which of the following countries would most likely
have had a view of geography education similar to that expressed in the passage?
(A) Germany
(B) Great Britain
(C) France
(D) The Soviet Union