The space in which the political function is exercised cannot be reduced to the recording, on a fixed plane, of the cumulative and institutionally framed results of human action (political geography), nor to its necessary projection (geopolitics). It is the provisional form to which thoughtful rather than spontaneous or forced citizen mobilization contributes, enlightened by the distanced presentation of situations that experts equipped with their scientific apparatus can submit. Education in the space of societies enables us to distinguish the doctrines that dominate political discourse from the theories that result from scientific investigation, to the point of enabling the productive debate of a "legitimate space" at all aggregated scales.