Our intense dedication to the beliefs and values important to us can often undermine our efforts to expand ourselves through education.
As intrigued as we are by the philosophical ideals embraced by other cultures, we sometimes cannot help but compare them unfavorably to our own. We can avoid this pitfall by committing ourselves to a path of non-judgmental observation in which we endeavor only to take in information.
Though we may choose not to integrate our discoveries into our individual ideologies, we can nonetheless appreciate how profoundly important certain concepts and ideas are to the people who have taken them to heart and adopted them as elements of their value systems. We learn so much about the world around us when we put aside our personal feelings and observe without passing a verdict on that which we survey.
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