Famous Educators, Notable Teachers, Posters & Prints “E...”
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Betty Edwards
b. 1926; San Francisco

Art teacher and author Betty Edwards is best known for her 1979 book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

Betty Edwards quotes ~
• “Ability to draw depends on ability to see the way an artist sees, and this kind of seeing can marvelously enrich your life.”
• “When you see in the special way in which experienced artist see, then you can draw.”
• “Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.”

Albert Einstein
b. 3-14-1879; Ulm, Germany
d. 4-18-1955; Princeton, NJ

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

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Creative Process

• more Albert Einstein posters

Albert Einstein quotes ~
• “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
• “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
• “The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.”
• “Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.”
• “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly.”

Loren Eiseley
b. 9-3-1907; Lincoln, NE
b. 7-9-1977; Philadelphia

Loren Eiseley, an anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, was referred to as “the modern Thoreau”.

Loren Eiseley quotes ~
• “It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.”
• “It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution.”
• “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
• “If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.”
• “The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.”
• “Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.”

Abbe De L'Epee, French Inventor of a Sign Language, Giclee Print

Abbe Charles-Michel de l'Épée,
b. 11-25-1712; Versailles, France
d. 12-23-1789; Paris

Épée, in the philantropic spirit of the 18th century, believed that deaf people were capable of language, and dedicated himself to developing a manual for signing langauge so the deaf could receive the sacraments, thus avoid going to hell. He has become known as the “Father of the Deaf.”

• alphabet posters- sign language
• hearing posters

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1526, Giclee Print Albrecht Dürer

Desiderius Erasmus
b. 10-27-1466; Rotterdam
d. 7-12-1536; Basel

Desiderius Erasmus was a humanist - a teacher of grammar, rhetoric, moral philosophy, poetry and history as studied via classical authors, and a theologian.

• Desiderius Erasmus (Spiritual Leaders and Thinkers Series)
• The Erasmus Reader

Jaime Escalante
b. 12-31-1930; La Paz, Bolivia
d. 3-30-2010; near Sacramento, CA (bladder cancer)

Jaime Escalante, a professor and teacher of mathematics, gained renown and distinction for his work between 1974 and 1991 at Garfield High School in Los Angeles, California in teaching students calculus.

The movie Stand and Deliver is based on Escalante's experiences. • Escalante: The Best Teacher in America • more Hispanic Heritage posters

Stand and Deliver, Movie Poster