Famous Educators, Notable Teachers, Posters & Prints “N...-”
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Scott Nearing
b. 8-6-1883; Tioga Co., Pennsylvania
d. 8-24-1983

Scott Nearing, who was dismissed from his teaching post for his socialist views in 1915, was a “back-to-lander” with his second wife Helen (1904-1995).

They wrote extensively about their experience living what they termed “the good life” by reducing their wants and engaging in a mostly barter exchange for their organic produce and other sorts of labor.

Ada Negri
b. 2-3-1870; Lodi, Italy
d. 1-11-1945; Milano

Ada Negri was a village school teacher, a poet and the first woman to be admitted to the Italian Academy (1940). She also published political, mystical and feminist works.

John G. Neihardt
b. 1-8-1881; Sharpsburg, IL
d. 11-24-1973; Columbia, MO

Author and poet John Gneisenau Neihardt was also an amateur historian and ethnographer who preserved memories of the Native Americans and the pioneer past. He was the Nebraska State Poet Laureate from 1921 until his death and also a professor at the University of Nebraska and the University of Missouri.

John Neihardt quotes ~
• “The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.”
• “Everything the Power of the World does is in a circle. The Sky is round and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball and so are all the stars. The Wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles. ... The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.” - Black Elk Speaks

A. S. Neill
b. 10-17-1883; Forfar, Scotland
d. 9-23-1973; Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England

Progressive educator Alexander Sutherland Neill was founder of Summerhill school and an author, advocating personal freedom for children.

A. S. Neill quotes ~
• “The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best.”

Friedrich Nietzsche
b. 10-15-1844; Röcken bei Lützen, Prussia (Germany)
d. 8-25-1900; Weimar, Saxony

Friedrich Nietzsche, the youngest person to ever hold professorhip as the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, was a 19th century philosopher who deeply questioned religion, morality, culture and science of an increasingly objectified and materialistic world, echoing American Ralph Waldo Emerson.

While accused of being the inspiration for nazism, he actually broke with his anti-Semetic editor and found his sister and brother-in-laws efforts to establish a “Germanic” colony in Paraguay laughable. Regretably it was his estranged sister and mother who “edited” his writings and estate during his mental breakdown and death.

Carl Gustav Jung read Nietzsche as a student and “spoke informally to members of his inner circle about a thinker whose works had not only overwhelmed him with the depth of their understanding of human nature but also provided the philosophical sources of many of his own psychological and metapsychological ideas” between 1934-39.

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes ~
• “In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
• “All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”
• “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
• “Art is the proper task of life.”
• “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
• “He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.”
• “Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
• “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
• “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

• Nietzsche's Dancers : Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values

Kwame Nkrumah
b. 9-21-1909; Nkroful, Gold Coast
d. 2-27-1972; Bucharest, Romania (skin cancer)

Kwame Nkrumah lead the Gold Coast, the predecessor state of Ghana, and became both the first president and first prime minister of Ghana.

A theologian and teacher, Nkrumah was commitment to Pan-Africanism and founded the Organization of African Unity. He was inspired by the black intellectuals Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and George Padmore.

In 2000 the listeners of the BBC World Service voted Nkrumah Africa's man of the millennium.

Kwame Nkrumah quote ~
• “We face neither East nor West; We face forward.”

Charles Eliot Norton
b. 11-16-1827; Cambridge, MA
d. 10-21-1908

Author, social critic and professor of history of art, Charles Eliot Norton, was considered to be the most cultivated man in the United States by many of his contemporaries.

The Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University was established in 1925 as an annual lectureship in “poetry in the broadest sense”.

• Charles Eliot Norton: The Art of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America