Contemporary geography is experiencing a crisis as a school subject, in light of the changes in the education system, which are being implemented in Poland since the 1990s. This is reflected by geographic atrophy – lack of a coherent and synthetic thinking exhibited by students of primary and lower secondary schools. New school subject – natural science –caused the loss of the original holistic nature of geography. Currently, in order to meet the expectations of the labor market, geography became the subject socially marginalized, which is reflected in the reduction of teaching hours; number of “non-geography majors”; and in the attitude of pupils and parents. With this state of things even the geographers themselves have come to terms. They are the ones, however, who should look back and remind themselves of the power of geography as a subject in the past. Wacław Nałkowski wrote in 1907 that geography allows you to think scientifically, perceive aesthetically, and act practically. Along with history it constitutes the “real” in “reality” and allows us to take from it what is important to us. We should therefore return to the regional geography, to typological descriptions of landscape, promoted by the canonical authors of modern geography.