Famous Educators, Notable Teachers, Posters & Prints “Ha...-”
educational enrichment resources for social studies classrooms, home schools, and theme decor for office.

Ernst Haeckel
Kurt Hahn
Nathan Hale

Edith Hamilton
Kate Harrington

Ernst Haeckel
b. 2-16-1834; Germany
d. 8-8-1919

Haeckel was an eminent biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist as well as a supporter of Charles Darwin. Haeckel coined the term ecology.

Ernst Haeckel quotes ~
• “Politics is applied biology.”
• “There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared “European War” ...will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.” —Indianapolis Star, September 20, 1914 (Haeckel is the first person known to have used the term “First World War”.

• Colonial Jellyfish illustration, art print

Kurt Hahn's Schools and Legacy (no commercially available poster)

Kurt Hahn
b. 6-5-1886; Berlin
d. 12-14-1974

Kurt Hahn, who believed adolescents possess an innate decency and moral sense but were corrupted by society as they aged, was forced out of Germany in 1933. He founded Gordonstoun school in Scotland and was participated in the foundation of the Outward Bound Organization.

Nathan Hale
b. 6-6-1755; CT
d. 9-22-1776; hung by the Bristish as a spy, possibly the corner of 3rd Ave & 66th St, Manhattan.

Nathan Hale was a teacher in East Haddam and New London, CT, after he graduated from Yale and before joining the Continental Army for the American Revolutionary War. He reportedly said, “I only regret that I have but one life to give my country.”

Edith Hamilton
b. 8-12-1867; Germany
d. 5-31-1963; Washington, DC

Educator and author educator Edith Hamilton was “recognized as the greatest woman Classicist”. She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way, her first book, was published in 1930; and her 1942 Mythology is still a classroom standard introductory text.

Edith Hamilton quote ~
• “To be able to be caught up into the world of thought – that is educated.”
• “Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.”
• “There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.”
• “Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.”
• “When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”

• Edith Hamilton / National Archives

Kate Harrington (no commercially available poster)

Kate Harrington,
née Rebecca Harrington Smith
b. 9-20-1831; Allegheny City, PA
d. 5-29-1917; Ft. Madison, IA

Rebecca Harrington was a teacher, writer and poet who developed a “sequential reading program of intensive synthetic phonics, complete with a separate teacher's manual and spelling and reading books, and moving into a broad based graded series of literature readers.”

A Hubert Harrison Reader (no commercially available poster)

Hubert Harrison
b. 4-27-1883; (now U.S. Virgin Islands)
d. 12-17-1927 (appendicitis)

Hubert Harrison, a West Indian born writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical political activist, was based in Harlem, New York. Harrison was described by A. Philip Randolph as “the father of Harlem radicalism”.

Gabriel Harvey
b. 1545; England
d. 1630

Gabriel Harvey a writer and scholar who wanted to be “epitaphed as the Inventour of the English Hexameter”. (Hexameter is a metrical line of verse consisting of six feet.) He is best remembered today as “the prime mover in the literary clique known as the Areopagus that wanted to impose the Latin rules of quantity on English verse”. Harvey was also teacher and friend to poet Edmund Spenser.