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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.
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We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.
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