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Anna Laetitia Barbauld
b. 6-29-1743; Leicestershire, England
d. 3-9-1825; Stoke Newington As a “woman of letters”, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, was a poet, essayist, children's author and teacher. Her primers provided a model for pedagogy, as a literary critic her anthology of 18th-century British novels established the field of study, her poetry leading to the development of Romanticism in England.
• Lessons for Children: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Children's literature, Pedagogy, John Locke, Maria Edgeworth, Sarah Trimmer, Jane Taylor, Ellenor Fenn, Romanticism
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John Barth
b. 5-27-1930; Cambridge, MD
Novelist, short-story writer, and professor John Barth, is known for the postmodernist (fragmentation, paradoxical) and metafictive quality (fiction that asks questions of being fiction, like a story about a writer writing a story), of his work. |
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Clara Barton
b. 12-25-1821; Oxford, MA
d. 4-13-1912
Humanitarian Clara Barton was a teacher and nurse who is remembered for her work with wounded in the American Civil War and organizing the American Red Cross. The International Committee of the Red Cross had been established in Europe “to protect the victims of international and internal armed conflicts ... the war wounded, prisoners, refugees, civilians, and other non-combatants.” Barton could only ‘sell’ the idea of the Red Cross with the expanded vision including any great national disaster because post-Civil War Americans could not imagine the US would ever be involved in another conflict as horrendous as the Civil War.
Clara Barton quotes ~
• “I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”
• “I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.”
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Jacques Barzun
b. 11-30-1907; France
Jacques Barzun, at age 12, was sent by his father to the U.S. for a broad liberal education. Barzun became a professor of history and founded the discipline of “cultural history”.
Jacques Barzun quotes ~
• “Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.”
• “A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.”
• “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
• “Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.”
• “If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.”
• From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present, Jacque Barzun
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Dorothea Beale
b. 3-21-1831; Bishopsgate, England
d. 11-9-1906 Dorothea Beale was dedicated to educating women, becoming head of Cheltenham Ladies' College and founding St. Hilda's College, a teacher's training college. She was also a suffragette. |
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Catharine Beecher
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Catharine Beecher
b. 9-6-1800; East Hampton, NY
d. 5-12-1878
Educator Catherine Beecher, who dedicated her life to women’s education and vehement support of kindergarten into children's education, is better remembered as the daughter of clergyman Lyman Beecher and sister of author Harriet Beecher Stowe, and theologians Henry Ward Beecher and Charles Beecher.
Catharine Beecher quotes ~
• “The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.”
• “The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.”
• “As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.”
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Alexander Graham Bell
b. 3-3-1847; Edinbergh, Scotland
d. 8-2-1922; Nova Scotia (diabetes)
Alexander Graham Bell, who is best remembered as an inventor of the telephone and the first to patent it, was a teacher at the Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf in Boston.
Alexander Graham Bell quotes ~
• “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
• “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
• “America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.”
• Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention
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Jeremy Bentham
b. 2-15-1748; England
d. 6-6-1832
Political radical Jeremy Bentham, was a jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer, who advocated utilitarianism (the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its utility in providing happiness or pleasure), animal rights, and welfare. He was one of the founders of the University College London.
Jeremy Bentham quote ~
• “The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can they suffer?”
• “It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.”
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Henri Bergson
b. 10-18-1859; France
d. 1-4-1941; Paris
Henri Bergson, a major philosophical influence in the first half of the 20th century, served as a philosophy professor and was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature “in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented”.
Henri Bergson quotes ~
• “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
• “There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.”
• Creative Evolution
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Johann Bernoulli (also known as John or Jean)
b. 7-27-1667; Basel
d. 1-1-1748; Basel
The Bernoulli's were a mathematically brilliant family. John, the father, was a mathematician and educator (Leonard Euler was his student), and who, along with his brother Jakob (Bernoulli numbers), were among the first to understand the new calculus (introduced to as students of Leibniz) and to apply calculus to problems.
John was also the father of mathematician Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) who is remembered for his principle of fluid mechanics stating that “as the speed of a moving fluid increases, the pressure within the fluid decreases” - or why an airplane wing is shaped the way it is.
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Mary McLeod Bethune
b. 7-10-1875; Mayesville, SC
d. 5-18-1955; Daytona Beach, FL
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 quotes ~
• “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.”
• Great Black Innovators posters
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