Why travel-schooling is not just another family holiday

What we are learning from making the world our kids’ classroom

When I shared my idea of taking a sabbatical from my job as a senior economist in February this year, I was met with wonder, as expected. However, the person’s next sentence would invariably disappoint me because almost everybody misunderstood what I was setting out to do with my family. Most colleagues and friends thought of this as a travel adventure, some kind of a tick mark on our family’s bucket list. It is very much an…