Vulcans believe in the virtue of logic over emotion. Their school system for their young ones is completely built on teaching things through that lens. Lately I feel that they sometimes seek logic to the detriment of proper connections between family members, but I'm also human and probably can't understand completely.

We also have teleportation where I'm from, but it's only a short-distance method of travel. Only distances within a solar system, or thereabouts.