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I didn’t set out to be a humanist educator. My passion early in my career was practicing as a family therapist. I was intrigued by the varied difficulties families faced and the challenge to help them sort through their problems. Education was the last occupation I ever thought I would pursue. And I definitely never imagined I would devote the majority of my working life to humanism. But here I am 18 years later, the Executive Director of The Humanist Institute, the only organization in North America providing educational programs representing the full spectrum of humanist philosophy.
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Wintermute, K. (2022). Humanist Education. In: Hart, W.D. (eds) Educating Humanists. Studies in Humanism and Atheism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88527-4_2
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