STUDENT TRAVEL The world is a book
and those who do not travel read only one page. Columbia Academy believes that student travel opportunities are as valuable as any classroom lecture. Although all cannot go, none would be able if the trips were not offered. Our students have had the chance to visit England, France, Italy, Spain, and Greece in Western Europe; Costa Rico in Central America; and Washington, DC, New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orlando, Atlanta, and Louisville, KY in the United States. Some of these trips have been for competitions with DECA or the show choir, but most have been for the love of education. Travel is a tremendous growth experience. If we wish our student to be world citizens, then we must give them the world’s art, music, languages, and people from which to learn. As Mark Twain wrote: 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. We don’t want our students to have read only one page of a book or vegetate in an insular corner of the earth.
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