Educational Travel
FROM CLASSICAL PURSUITS
Educational Travel with Meaning
"To learn of the pine, go to the pine."
~Basho, (1644-94) Japanese poet
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil
the intellect."
~Leonardo da Vinci
To a growing number of discerning adults, the standard vacation, whether
an organized sight-seeing tour or a private beach holiday, has lost
its lustre. Traditional tourism has so many negative associations –
clamouring crowds, gaudy shops, hawkers, long waits, and deafening noise
– that many may be inclined to give up travel altogether.
But there is another approach to travel, one that appeals to the intellectually
curious and spirited adventurer. Classical Pursuits is one of a multitude
of small, alternative educational travel companies that believe travel
should be exhilarating and enlarging. Features these groups have in
common include smaller groups, a higher degree of independence, direct
encounters with the local people, and pursuing themes or experiences
outside one’s normal ken. The vast majority of these companies
offer outdoor adventure – hiking, biking, rafting, wildlife trips.
A smaller number are cultural or cerebral in orientation, often with
a scholar as guide. Only a few offer literary travel.
We are the only educational travel group we know of that offers the
opportunity to travel though both space and time to destinations like
Lorca’s Spain, Hemingway’s Paris, Dante’s Italy or Flannery
O’Connor’s Georgia to discuss great literature in the destinations
in which is it set, probing what it has to say to us that is timeless
and universal. This active form of educational travel generates the
excitement of discovery and a depth of retention that is not possible
through passive learning at the feet of an expert. Travellers return
home refreshed, energized, and transformed.
Please browse our educational
travel opportunities.
