Endorsing Wanderlust: Travel to Live, Travel to Learn

By Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

September 2024 COVER STORY
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A BABY SHOULD cry at birth. It must be traumatic being born, after all. The compressing comfort of the womb is suddenly gone, the noises and lights once gleaned through the mother’s body now rush in unfiltered.The first journey the former foetus goes upon is a watery slide. And then its umbilical cord is cut. No more automatic feed. Trauma indeed.Then follows the shock of countless new impressions from a boundlessly extended world outside the mother. No wonder babies have...

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Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His recent books include The Eurasian Core and its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World (ISEAS 2016). Homepage: wikibeng.com

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