Band 6+: Write about the following topic: Memorising facts is the most important way to succeed in education. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Travelling and exploration of the world has been a passion of people across generations. The people who are into travelling argue that it expand boundaries of one’s mind. Conversely, few people takes the opposite stance. This essay will explore both sides and why I think travelling definitely open new ways of thinking.

People who think travelling is truely unneccessary state that growth and development of one’s mind is totally independent of how much he has travelled, hence both activities are irrelevant. For example, Einstein, who has revolutionized the scientific world and gave it a whole new prespective, did not use to travel much. On the other hand, Wascoda Gama, who was a great traveller and the one to discover a continent, has no contributions towards science or anything revolutionary. Furthermore, most of the inventions and discoveries has been born out of laboratory or thinking alone, hence travelling has no contribution to one’s mental development.

Conversely, those who like to travel advocate that it exposes mind to new prespectives expanding it’s horizen of thinking. Living in one society, bounds mind to one language, one culture, and limited approaches of doing different things, hence limiting the mind to handful of ideas, whereas, travelling, on the other hand, exposes one to multitude of methods to approach a particular problem. For instance, before visiting Switzerland, I used to believe that dancing is just a waste of time and must be prohibited in society. After my visit in last summer, I realized that it is a fun activity and an amazing way to connect with new people. Similarly, mind is bound to lots of society specific norms and afraid of trying new ideas, which limits its capacity. Therefore, travelling absolutely contribute to mental growth.

In conclusion, even though travelling does not help in making revolutionary inventions, it does provide mind with fresh ways of thinking by removing society specific boundaries. I am strongly in the favor of travelling and I believe this nurtures mind by exposing it to unseen ideas.