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

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.
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We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?
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