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Aesop
Louis Agassiz

Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Mikael Agricola

Aesop, Author of Fables, Giclee Print

Aesop (ca. 620 - 560 BC) was possibly a Greek slave of African descent; the word Aesop means Ethiop in Ancient Greek.

Over 200 fables, short stories using personified animals to tell a cautionary tale, a moral lesson, or a rule of behavior, have been attributed to Aesop.

• Aesop's Fables posters
• biology poster with Aesop quote

Louis Agassiz
b. 5-28-1807; Haut-Vully, Switzerland
d. 12-14-1873; Cambridge, MA

A famous story about a student getting his eyes back was how Agassiz would leave a post grad looking at a fish for months.

Agassiz, who had a medical degree, made major contributions to modern knowledge of geology, paleontolgy and zoology; he was also an opponent of Charles Darwin.

• Methods of Study in Natural History

Maria Gaetana Agnesi
b. 5-16-1718; Milan, Italy
d. 1-9-1799

Maria Gaetana Agnesi, the first woman to be appointed professor at a university (Bologna), was a child prodigy recognized as a mathematician, philosopher, and linguist. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus, and called the most important woman in mathematics since Hypatia (5th century AD) by Dirk Jan Struik.

Agnesi can also be considered an activist for her composing and delivering a speech in Latin on a woman's right to education at the age of nine.

Mikael Agricola
b. c. 1510; Finland
d. 4-9-1557

The clergyman Mikael Agricola, known as the “father of the Finnish written language”, created a primer for reading and catechism. Despite the religious turmoil of the time it seems he preferred dealing with bishops and kings; as a rector (L: teacher), he called his students “untamed animals.”

• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland: Lutheranism, Christianity, Porvoo Communion, Archdiocese of Turku, Mikael Agricola, Bishop of Tampere, Finnish Seamen's Mission

• more alphabet posters

Amos Bronson Alcott
b. 11-29-1799; Wolcott, CT
d. 3-4-1888; Boston, MA

Teacher, writer and philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott is best remembered as the father of author Louisa May Alcott. His educational philosophy was informed by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and through his association with Transcendentalism. His forward-thinking social ideas were expressed in two projects, an unconventional school and an utopian community known as “Fruitlands”.

Amos Bronson Alcott quotes ~
• “The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.”
• “We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.”
• “A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.”
• “One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.”

• The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind