Working with educators for over 40 years, I promoted the idea that the best way to learn history is to experience it. Taking this further maybe one should really say, the best way to learn about our world - past and present is to experience it.
When people would tell me they were going up to Baffin Island for a summer holiday, I could never understand why. Now I know.
When people, victims of civil strife in South America would have the opportunity to come to Canada and later want to return home, I could not understand why. Now I know.
I call them Great Adventures. You can call them Learning Vacations or whatever you like. One thing is for sure. They will change the way you think about things.
CYM Elizabeth II Coronation Adventure - 1953
Northwest Passage - Marine Expeditions - 2000
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