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According to a well-known proverb: “Knowledge without travel is like a boat on dry land”. Our mind becomes static and confined by seeing the same people daily and following the same lifestyle with each sunrise. When we visit new places and meet new people, it casts an abiding impact on our minds. A physical journey promotes a ‘mental journey’ into novel thoughts and nascent ideas.
Educational excursions have, therefore, been an intrinsic element of LAHS education. Every year in December, when most of India is enjoying pleasant winter inviting people to bask in its golden sunlight, our sneakers go on board to places of endless charms like the students in the famous book of Hermann Hesse – Narcissus and Goldmund.
LAHS students’ excursion trips have measured the nooks and corners of India. Ask them any place from the northern tip of India such as Jammu & Kashmir to the utmost south at Kanniyakumari, and from Kolkata in east to Goa in west, and they will tell you all about their culture and cuisine, languages and traditions, religions and beliefs, everything.
Our children have visited a number of international venues as well, such as Kennedy Space Centre and NASA in America, and are widely travelled young citizens who have been exposed to the vibrant ambiences of Mauritius, Nepal, Turkey, U.K., and a number of other countries. In this way, they have been able to realize the Vedic vision of “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”, reiterated by Baha’u’llah that: “This earth is but one country and mankind its citizens”.
Journeys never end…be they mental or physical! The human mind is bound to expand and imbibe even greater ideas, nobler thoughts, and more expanding knowledge ever and ever. This is the main lesson our children learn through all these excursions. |
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