Education vs Schooling
University Saint-Anne (Bilingual Program)
- receive certificate
- can speak french
Cost
- tuition: $6,100
- mandatory dorm: $3,860
- mandatory cafeteria: $4,100
- incidentals/allowance: $1000
Total: ~$15,000/year * 2-4 years
8 months in France:
- exposure to other cultures
- exposure to rich history
- exposure to art
- work experience (get a job)
- can speak french
Cost
- Return Flight: $1000
- Room/board: $4,000
- incidentals/allowance: $4,000
Total: $9,000
What got me thinking about it, was a reference to Bachelor degree requirements from a hundred years ago. Knowing a second language was a minimum requirement. Frankly, the requirements for a "Bachelors" were harder than what some of my friends have described for their "Masters".
When our children still lived at home we travelled extensively so they could get an education in addition to their schooling. All across Canada (and back again), 30 of the 50 states, Mexico, Australia, and Norway.
Since then our youngest (completing his PhD at U.Vic) has also been to Hong Kong, and Nepal, with trips planned for Peru, North Africa, Israel, and Turkey. The trick is to go places as a traveller - not as a tourist. Travellers accept what they find; Tourists expect home wherever they go (which is why there is a McDonald's in the shadow of the Pyramids of Giza).