Famous Educators, Notable Teachers, Posters & Prints “Sa...-Se...-”
educational posters for social studies classrooms, home schools, and theme decor for office.

Saratheswathee
Augusta Savage
Franz Schubert

John T. Scopes
Edouard Seguin

Saratheswathee, Hindu Goddess of Learning, with Singhalese and English Inscription

• Hindu posters
• goddess posters

Augusta Savage Stars of the Harlem Renaissance Poster

Augusta Savage
b. 2-29-1892; Green Cove Springs, FL
d. 1962

While Augusta Savage is mostly known as a sculptor, she was also a wonderful art teacher and a tirelss supporter of the rights of all artists, especially black artist. ... sculpt the likenesses of some of the major black political figures of the time, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. ... In her later years, Savage spent more of her time teaching than sculpting. She founded a school that became the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest art center in the United States. ...

• more Stars of the Harlem posters

Franz Schubert, Austrian Musician Working as a Schoolteacher, Giclee Print

Franz Schubert
b. 1-31-1797; Austria
d. 11-19-1828, Vienna

Franz Schubert, composer of the “Unfinished Symphony” taught at his father's school for two years; he also was a music teacher to the family of Count Johann Karl Esterházy.

John T. Scopes, Photographic Print

John T. Scopes
b. 8-3-1900; Paducah, KY
d. 10-21-1970

John T. Scopes was a high school football coach who occasionally substituted in the classroom. He allowed himself to become the test case for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of the State of Tennessee's Butler Act, a ban against teaching human evolution. The trial came to be known as the “Scopes Monkey Trial” (H. L. Mencken) and attracted nationwide attention to the small Tennessee town of Dayton in the summer of 1925. The prosecution was lead by noted fundamentalist orator William Jennings Bryan, the defense was lead by Clarence Darrow.

• Inherit the Wind, DVD - a slightly fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.

Edouard Séguin no commercially available image

Edouard Séguin
b. 1-12-1812; France
d. 10-28-1880; NYC

Physician and educator Edouard Séguin is best remembered for working with children having cognitive impairments. Séguin's work with the mentally handicapped was encouraged by his teacher, Jean Marc Garpard Itard; and Séguin was a major inspiration to Maria Montessori.

Edouard Séguin quote ~
• “Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.”

Sequoyah, Giclee Print

Sequoyah
b. 1774; present day Tennessee or North Carolina
d. 1843; Mexico

Sequoyah was a Cherokee silversmith, blacksmith, teacher and soldier who developed a writing system that was adopted by the Cherokee Nation in 1825.

• Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing

Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
b. 8-28-1774; New York City, NY
b. 1-4-1821; Arizona

Mother Seton, the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church (1975), converted to catholicism in 1805 while in Italy.

She establish the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph in Emmitsburg, Maryland dedicated to the care of the children of the poor in 1810. It was the first religious community of apostolic women founded in the United States, and its school was the first free school in America.

Mother Seton quotes ~
• “We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.”
• “The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.”

• Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity
• theology posters