I’m mulling over the benefits of travel, probably because I’m sending a new group of students on a Jerusalem semester abroad this week. So, for today, here is my favorite travel quote, by the prolific Mark Twain, because I couldn’t explain my opinion any better. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Twain wrote “The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress” in 1867, chronicling his adventures on board the ship The Quaker City as he and other American travelers journeyed through Europe and the Holy Land. Twain got it right. Travel opens the eyes to the worth of all human beings.
MEMORY PROMPT: Has travel opened your eyes?
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