BuzzFeed - "Although I did not learn quite as much Spanish as I could haveâ¦I learned a lot about the Mexican people and their way of life." George Bush Presidential Library and Museum When Jeb Bush was a 17-year-old high school senior, he famously went to Mexico for a class called "Man and Society." It was an experimental course, meant to give students a practical education, as well as an academic one, teacher Thomas Lyons said at the time. It was also designed to remove a group of students, accustomed to the privileges of life at plush prep school Phillips Academy Andover, from their usual surroundings. The winter months he spent in Mexico made an enormous impression on the teenage Bush. "My life really began in earnest when I was 17 years old in León, Mexico," Bush said earlier this month, according to a Politico story about the trip. It was then, for instance, that he met his wife, Columba. When the students got back, the Andover student newspaper, The Phillipian, published a s
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