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Famous Educators, Noteable Teachers, Posters & Prints, pg 1/3
educational posters for social studies classrooms, home schools, and theme decor for office.
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educational posters > Famous Educators 1 | 2 | 3 < philosophers < social studies
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Education refers to the teaching and learning of knowledge, beliefs and skills. The word education, derived from the Latin educare meaning “to raise”, “to bring up”, “to train”. Recently a different verb; educere, meaning to “lead out” or “lead forth”, has been suggested as the root of education. However, the English word from this verb is “eduction”: drawing out, and bolsters the theory behind the function of education—to develop innate abilities and expand horizons. Please see Education Versus Eduction.
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I AM A TEACHER, Poster
I am a good communicator, I like helping people, and I'm very patient, I'm going to continue learning and doing well in school. If I follow my dream and believe in myself, someday I'll be a history teacher, or maybe a kindergarten classroom is the place for me. Either way, I'll get to share my love of learning with others. I have the power to be somebody! ...
Related careers: Principal / Librarian / Child Care Worker / Athletic Coach
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Edwin Abbott
b. 12-20-1838; England
d. 10-12-1926
Edwin Abbott, a teacher and author of Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions, which is a math satire and religious allegory of a two dimensional world where the square narrator guides readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. Isaac Asimov said in the Foreword that “The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions.”
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The Education of Alexander the Great by Aristotle from a Book by L. Figuier, Giclee Print
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Mary McLeod Bethune
b. 7-10-1875; Mayesville, SC
d. 5-18-1955; Daytona Beach, FL
Bethune encouraged people to
Mary McLeod Bethune, daughter of former slaves, was a tireless educator best remembered as a the founder of the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in 1904. The school evolved into the Bethune-Cookman University.
Mary McLeod Bethune quote:
• “Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.”
• “If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.”
• “Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.”
• “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”
• “The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.”
• “Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.”
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Saint Hildegard von Bingen
b. 1098; Germany
d. 9-17-1179
Saint Hildegard von Bingen should be considered a “polymath” (a person with varied knowledge and learning). She was elected a magistra (a female teacher) in 1136 and went on to be recognized as an “abbess, artist, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, activist, visionary, and composer”.
Hildegard von Bingen quotes:
• “We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a HOME. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.”
• “The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured, it must not be destroyed.”
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Elizabeth Blackwell
b. 2-3-1821; England
d. 5-31-1910
Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman earn a Medical Doctor (MD) degree and become a doctor in the United States (1849), was from a Quaker family active as abolitionists and in the women's suffrage movement.
To prepare herself for medical school Blackwell boarded with physicians in order to read in their libraries as she taught school to earn money for a medical education.
Only one school admitted Blackwell, Geneva Medical College, and she was allowed to attend only because the male students voted her in as a joke. After graduation she was banned from U.S. teaching hospitals so she interned at La maternité, Paris, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. In 1857, she, along with her sister Emily (3rd woman medical graduate) and Marie Zakrzewska (also a physician), set up the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, after years of professional and social shunning. Blackwell helped trained nurses in the US Civil War, and in 1868 established the Women's Medical College.
Blackwell returned to England, and with Florence Nightingale opened a medical school for women there.
Elizabeth Blackwell was a sister-in-law to Lucy Stone.
Elizabeth Blackwell quotes:
• “Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.”
• “For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.”
• “If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.”
• Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Physician (Great Life Stories)
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Louis Braille
b. 1-4-1809; France
d. 1-6-1852
The braille system of reading and writing for blind and visually impaired people was developed by Louis Braille.
Braille, who was blind from the age of four, was a notable teacher at the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris.
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Nicholas Murray Butler
b. 4-2-1862; Elizabeth, NJ
d. 12-7-1947; NYC
“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.” - attributed to Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler was a philosopher, diplomat, educator, and cofounder of the New York School for the Training of Teachers, which became Teacher's College of Columbia University, where he was president from 1902 to 1945 (43 years). Butler was also shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Jane Addams.
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Shirley Chisholm,
b. 11-30-1924; Brooklyn, NY
d. 1-1-2005
“I'm ‘fighting Shirley Chisholm,’ and I'm unbought and unbossed.” That was how U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm usually introduced herself to crowds. It was a very good description. Shirley Chisholm has always been a fighter, with very strong opinions and very little patience for people who fought the idea of change. Because of this, she has been called difficult and stubborn. But the many children Shirley Chisholm taught in day care classes, and the many people she helped while she was in Congress know her as a warm and caring person who always took the time to listen to them. ...
(poster published prior to 2005)
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Muzio Clementi
b. 1-23-1752; Rome
d. 3-10-1832
Pianist Muzio Clementi, who is acknowledged as the first composer to write specifically for the piano, was also a piano teacher and piano manufacturer.
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Maria Cosway, artist
b. 1760; Italy
d. 1838
Maria Cosway, born to English parents in Florence, Italy, was an artist as well as a musician. In Paris she met, and subsequently became involved with Thomas Jefferson. She went on to found schools for girls in Lyons, France and in Lodi.
References: Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits by Frances Borzello, pp.100-101; Women, Art and Society, by Whitney Chadwick, p.149.
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Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, was the French educator primarily responsible for the revival of the modern Olympic games in 1894.
“The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”
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Marie Curie,
b. 11-7-1867, Poland
d. 7-4-1934, France
Poster Text: The pioneering reasearch of physicist and chemist Marie Curie contributed to some of the most important new fields of study in science, from modern physics to the treatment of cancer. Madame Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the most famous honor in science. Eventually she won two Nobels. ...
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