[FatherOfCurses]

I don't know if education and understanding are the same things, but I feel that I've always come away from places that I've travelled to with a better understanding of the place.

I'm sure that if you just do zero research about a place and just take a package tour you won't come away with any greater knowledge than they would by reading a Wikipedia article or watching a YouTube video.

But if you learn some things in advance, and then go to a place, and suddenly you have the experience of "Ooh, there's that thing I learned about!", followed by watching how locals interact with it, there has to be some deeper level of understanding that is reached there.