10 reasons why travel is the best form of education

Many, perhaps, will agree that the real education, which is certainly useful to a person in life, we get mostly outside the stuffy classrooms. No, this is not a passage in favor of revising the fundamental principles of the modern system of obtaining knowledge. But still, in addition to the usual schemes of "school - teacher - class - tests" and "university - teacher - group - exams", there are more specific ways to know yourself and the world around you and get a lot of necessary skills.

In fact, traveling is the best way to learn a lot for yourself. Whether you are walking through the streets of Paris, climbing a mountain peak in the Himalayas or spending a sunny day on a Dominican beach, travel will never let you down as a teacher.

Below you will find 10 reasons why traveling is the best form of education, no matter where you are going and what adventures await you.

English is spoken in almost any part of the planet, and most often it will work for you. Nevertheless, it is always better to know the language of the country you are going to visit. Traveling forces you to learn different languages. After learning the basics through books, apps, or videos, you can improve your skills by talking to a native speaker.

Traveling not only to other countries, but even to other parts of your own country is the best way to learn a lot of interesting things. You begin to better understand how diverse the cultures of the whole world are, notice the similarities and differences between the traditions you are familiar with and the way of life that seems alien to you.

Yes, you probably studied ancient civilizations and major historical events as part of an educational program, but nothing compares to a personal visit to historical sites, coupled with the discovery of many interesting facts.

Travel tells you not only about what the world was like in the past, but also about what it is like today. Surely this is the best way to truly assess the political situation, economic scenarios and the social structure of the world in which we live today.

When you leave your comfort zone in the middle of the concrete jungle and start exploring the most exotic natural phenomena of the world, you will begin to understand the colossal power of nature. The greatness of nature is essential for solving most global problems, such as climate change and air pollution.

Travel will test you literally every second. Since you are opening the way to the unknown, traveling will force you to do many things that would not have occurred to you under other circumstances.

It doesn't matter what exactly you do: tame elephants in Cambodia, wander the Appalachians or dance samba in Brazil — during your travels you will learn many new things for yourself. 

You can be modest and think that communicating with people is not so easy. But traveling will change this state of affairs, since it is almost impossible to do without communicating with strangers on trips. What is not a course on personal development?

If you spend your life in opposition, constantly reacting in one way or another to the circumstances hanging over you, and at the same time you want to change the established order, but do not know how to do it, traveling will help you learn independence and the ability to control your own destiny to one degree or another.

While traveling, you learn to be independent, especially if you go alone. You will learn to make decisions on your own and take the initiative.

When you travel a lot, encountering many cultural peculiarities of people around the world, you begin to understand that, despite all the differences, we are still very similar to each other in some way, and your prejudices about skin color, gender or religion will gradually disappear.

This is probably the most important aspect of education that can be obtained through travel. Finding ourselves in unknown locations, in unfamiliar circumstances and in unusual cultural layers, we see ourselves differently, noticing many important things in our character, behavior, habits and other components of our personality that we did not pay attention to before. 

You realize the real scale of your potential, you understand what you enjoy with pleasure, and what genuinely annoys you, and, finally, you are getting closer to understanding who you really are.