That’s the way I sum it up. If you’re in school just for skills, to be a technician of some kind, that’s just fine. God bless you. That’s just not me. I need a true education, it’s just a locked-in attribute of my brain. And, to me, you cannot call yourself truly educated unless you’ve studied abroad. The world is too big, too random, too varied, too beautiful, for you to say that you’ve been educated enough to fully participate in it and yet have never gone and engaged people like yourself from vastly different places and backgrounds.

Go. Now.