The Educative Value of Traveling
“A gentleman should travel abroad, but live at home,” says a
renowned scholar. What he has said id meaningful, but it is, perhaps also
equally true that those who want to live well and meaningfully at home should
travel abroad. In fact, traveling has as equal an educative value as textbooks
have. Seeing is learning the real Pragmatic learning. If we go ort visiting
people and places at times and see for ourselves what we would otherwise read
in books, our learning would become more effective. What is normally written in
textbooks? Nothing but the abstraction of the reality of what has happened, id
happening, and may happen in future. If this is true, then it is also true that
traveling should be a part of our academic education. The universities,
colleges, and schools of most developed countries have already made it
compulsory to travel of go on education tours. In Russia, for example,
theoretical teaching is not at all given to students in the first year of their
schooling on some subjects. Such evidences, and various other research work
launched by scholars, hold out the fact that traveling has an immense educative
value.
