If you step into the museum at Portable Practical Educational Preparation Inc., youll see a bright turquoise bus. The doors still open and it still has the same interior.

As John Arnold stepped into it, a rush of memories came back to him about when he first started PPEP 58 years ago.

I found it in an old used bus lot in Phoenix, Arnold said. I decided to buy the bus, make a portable school, so now were Portable Practical Education.

He still remembers driving the bus to teach migrant farmworkers in the Bracero program. It was a program that brought migrant farmworkers from Mexico to work in American fields.

Every one of them going away with a vision of what can be done with very little, Arnold said. We cannot stop learning ever. There is always a need. Things are changing around us so

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