My experience teaching geography in CPGE (Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles) is set in a unique educational context: working with highly motivated high school-university students who are pursuing a multidisciplinary curriculum where social sciences are often sidelined. The goal, therefore, is to offer them a window onto current events and the realities of a world they are about to enter as active participants. But this window must be grounded in rigorous scientific inquiry, equipping them to resist received ideas and fake news, and empowering them to become critical actors in that world.