Famous Educators, Teachers Posters & Prints, pg 3/3
for social studies classrooms, home schools, and theme decor for office.

Gen. Pershing Inspecting Machine Gun Troops of All Black 10th Cavalry, Photographic Print

General John "Black Jack" Pershing
b. 9-13-1860; Laclede, MO
d. 7-15-1948

Pershing, who lead the World War I American Expeditionary Force (AEF) and is considered the mentor of the US generals in the European Theatre of WWII, served as a teacher in rural Missouri before he attended West Point. His experience with African American children helped with racial issues when he commanded a racially diverse unit of soldiers.

• My Experiences in the World War by John Joseph Pershing

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
b. 2-3-1746; Switzerland
d. 1-11-1827

"The child must be educated to be not only a skilled laborer, or an artisan, or a scholar, but a satisfactory husband to his wife, father to his son, citizen of his country. He must be able in his particular place in the community to be self-reliant and to help the others."

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss educational reformer whose theories laid the foundation of modern elementary education. His masterpiece, Leonard and Gertrude (1891), is an account of the gradual reformation, first of a household, and then of a whole village, by the efforts of a good and devoted woman.

Pestalozzi was influential to Friedrich Froebel, Branson Alcott (father of Louisa May Alcott), and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

• Raising Curious, Creative, Confident Kids: The Pestalozzi Experiment in Child-Based Education

Augusta Savage Stars of the Harlem Renaissance Poster

Augusta Savage
b. 2-29-1892, Green Cove Springs, FL
d. 1962

While Augusta Savage is mostly known as a sculptor, she was also a wonderful art teacher and a tirelss supporter of the rights of all artists, especially black artist. ... sculpt the likenesses of some of the major black political figures of the time, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. ... In her later years, Savage spent more of her time teaching than sculpting. She founded a school that became the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest art center in the United States. ...

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Saratheswathee, Hindu Goddess of Learning, with Singhalese and English Inscription, Giclee Print

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Elisabetta Sirani
b. 1638, England
d. 1665

Elisabetta Sirani, the daughter of a painter, was noted in her short lifetime for her portraits, mythological, Holy Family, and Virgin and Child paintings, drawings and etching. By the time she was nineteen she was running the family workshop and supporting her parents and siblings. She was also a noted teacher. After she died suddenly at the age of twenty seven, it was discovered she suffered from ulcers.

• Women Artists posters

Socrates,
(ca. 470 BC-399 BC)

“Wisdom begins with wonder.”

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The Miracle Worker, a play by William Gibson is based upon Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life and refers to Annie Sullivan, Keller's teacher.

The title comes from Mark Twain who had called Sullivan a "Miracle Worker".

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
b. 9-17-1857; Russian Empire
d. 9-19-1935

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, today considered the "father of space travel" earned a living as a math teacher. Self taught, Tsiolkovsky had been denied entry to elementary school because of deafness that was caused by a childhood illness. His thesis,"The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices", was published in 1903; he also wrote extensively on space and related subjects, including science fiction novels.

The television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation honored him by naming a fictional space ship the K. E. Tsiolkovsky.)

Andreas Vesalius
b. 12-31-1514; Brussels
d. 10-15-1564; Zakynthos

Vesalius used dissection as the primary teaching tool while his students clustered around the table. His insistence on hands-on direct observation was a huge leap of progress in medical studies and he kept meticulous drawings of his work.

• anatomy posters
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Booker T. Washington-
b. April 5, 185?, VA
d. 11-15-1915

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington went on to become the foremost black educator and leader of his time. He was also the founder of Tuskegee Institute, one of the leading African-American educational institutions in America. Washington steadfastly maintained that economic independence was the way to achieve social equality.

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Noah Webster
b. 10-16-1758; CT
d. 5-28-1843

Noah Webster, lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, and editor, is known as the "Father of American Scholarship and Education." His Blue Back Speller was the text for five generations of children in the United States.

Women Who Dared II
Composite Poster

Margaret Mead, Gabriel Mistral

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• Women Who Dared I poster

In the United States a polished apple is a traditional gift for the teacher and a symbol of education. I always associated the apple with the "forbidden" fruit of knowledge associated with the story of Eve and the Garden of Paradise.

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Abelard and His Pupil Heloise,
1882 ,Giclee Print
b. 1069; France
d. 4-21-1142

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