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To Know as We Are Known: A Spirituality of Education

This primer on authentic education explores how mind and heart can work together in the learning process. Moving beyond the bankruptcy of our current model of education, Parker Palmer finds the soul of education through a lifelong cultivation of the wisdom each of us possesses and can share to benefit others.

Subject
educationphilosophyself-help
Themes
teachersreligionspiritualitychristian
Setting
college
Audience
adult
Length
short · 160 pages

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