THE EDUCATIVE VALUE OF TRAVELLING
Notes: Travelling-supplementing our knowledge-broadening our outlook by killing our narrowness, prejudices-contact with various peoples, helping the cause of national unity. Develops resourcefulness-how to tide over unforeseen difficulties-helps in the future struggle for existence.
Travelling is an essential part of education. It increases and supplements our knowledge. The knowledge we derive from books is theoretical. It is rendered practical and real by travelling. We read of mountains and seas in our books of Geography, but our idea of these mighty objects of nature cannot be complete and clear until we see them ourselves.
Travelling broadens our outlook. When we travel we come in contact with people living in different parts of the world and speaking different languages. We study closely their religions, customs and manners. We compare them with ours and come to see that ours are not all good. The result is that our mind is broadened. Our narrowness, prejudice and above all our pride in our religions and customs fall off from our mind. In course of travels we have to mix, live and talk with peoples of different places. This close association among different peoples, helps to develop friendly relation among them. This friendly relation serves the cause of national unity.
Travelling develops our resourcefulness. While travelling we meet with many unforeseen difficulties. We may not know the language of the place we travel; or we may fall a victim to the fury of local people for some indiscreet act on our part. A hundred other difficulties may confront us. We must devise means to tide them over and the manner we try to do so teaches us lessons which help us much in the struggle for existence.
