He holds degrees in economics from Birmingham and Leeds Universities and was a teacher and lecturer for 16 years, mostly of economics and politics.

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In order to understand politics, business, other cultures and other points of view it seems almost imperative that we are not dependent on what our high school teacher or university lecturer told us.

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After a half century of observation, examination, and consultation, as a classroom teacher, university lecturer, academic advisor, pastoral counselor, and ER crisis counselor, I have concluded that our image filled minds are generated as complex mental holograms by our equally complex, functioning brains.

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Four of the captives - Britons Margaret Whitehouse, 52, a teacher from Hampshire, Ruth Williamson, 34, an NHS employee from Edinburgh, university lecturer Peter Rowe, 60, from Durham, and Australian Andrew Thirsk - were killed after Yemeni authorities tried to rescue them.

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