90% of the younglings nowadays wouldn't know what taking a heading of 218 degrees is without the use of Google. I too enjoy using a GPS as it does make life in the big woods a hell of a lot easier. I hunt in places where few humans have stepped foot on in centuries. A GPS does make navigating such places much easier but I sure as heck do NOT depend on the devises. Batteries die, electronics fail. Plain and simple. Hunting the places I have hunted is extremely different than your back yard hunters of today. But the problem doesn't so much lie in our youth but in our own generation for not passing on the skills required for survival and woodsmanship in the wild. Courses such as those that Flags stated are so few and far between they really aren't worth mentioning. The fault lies solely on our old shoulders folks. I taught my kids woods craft. The same as I was taught. I also taught several other children and even some adults. But there are few people out there that were willing to teach these brats of today just as there are just too few brats today willing to learn.