Our Philosophy
International Scholar Tours - Our Philosophy
- Experiences provide the most powerful and lasting educational foundation, because they engage, internalize and personalize the learning on multiple levels.
- A strong, enriched education embraces observations, insights, experiences and perspectives of many cultures.
- The most educational kind of travel, even more than lectures, involves shedding the role of tourist and striving for authentic, immersive experiences – meeting the people, being in the landscape, hearing the sounds and experiencing the culture.
Homeschool students can have unique opportunities to explore and experience the world, without the usual limitations of school calendars and rigid curricula, and our mission is to afford them those opportunities at a reasonable price.
By engaging local experts and faculty and designing trips that have onsite educational
dimensions, student travel can be combined with academics to create exceptional educational experiences that are enduring and profound.
We also believe in the importance of working with local experts who can make suggestions, help secure our arrangements and provide on-the-ground support with the insights that only locals can provide and assistance for emergencies and other unexpected circumstances.