The Great Teacher of the Old World, John Ears

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Dejan has a master's degree in history from Columbia University and previous to founding First Things, he worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali. He also taught history for nine years in the South Bronx in Harlem and New York City before moving his family abroad to continue his teaching in Haiti. Dejan: This is the kind of conversation that I wish I would have heard when I was younger. But then again, the whole Emerson line of life's lessons have to be lived to be understood.

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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