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Liberty Hyde Bailey
b. 3-15-1858; South Haven, Michigan
d. 12-25-1954;

Liberty Hyde Bailey was a botantist, horticulturalist, plant breeder, teacher, writer, philosopher, environmentalist, and plant explorer.

He studied cultivated plants and removed the barriers between theoretical botany and horticulture, the practice of applied plant sciences.

• Liberty Hyde Bailey at Amazon

Roger Bacon, aka Doctor Mirabilis (wonderful teacher)
b. 1214; Ilchester, Somerset, England
d. 1294; Oxford

Roger Bacon was a medieval Franciscan friar and philosopher who wrote on alchemy, mathematics, optics, astronomy, astrology and theology. He is recognized as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method.

Roger Bacon quotes ~
• “For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.”
• “The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.”

• The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon: Edited, with Introduction and Analytical Table, by John Henry Bridges. Volume 1 (Paperback)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
b. 6-29-1743; Leicestershire, England
d. 3-9-1825; Stoke Newington

• Lessons for Children: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Children's literature, Pedagogy, John Locke, Maria Edgeworth, Sarah Trimmer, Jane Taylor, Ellenor Fenn, Romanticism

John Barth
b. 5-27-1930; Cambridge, MD

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.”

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

Katharine Lee Bates
b. 8-12-1859; Falmouth, MA
d. 3-28-1929

Katharine Lee Bates, a professor of English literature at Wellesley College, is best remembered as the author of the poem “America, the Beautiful”, which was inspired by the view from the summit of Pikes Peak.