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

Rudolf Steiner
Cora Wilson Stewart

Sting
Bill Strickland

Rudolf Steiner
b. 2-25/27-1861; Croatia
d. 3-30-1925; Switzerland

Rudolf Steiner, architect and philosopher, is noted as the founder of Waldorf School movement.

Rudolf Steiner quotes ~
• “What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.”
• “All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.”
• “A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.”
• “Green represents the dead image of life.”

Cora Wilson Stewart
b. 1-17-1875; Farmers, Kentucky
d. December, 1958; North Carolina

Cora Wilson Stewart founded the innovative Moonlight Schools in 1911, teaching illiterate Kentucky adults to read with materials she developed. Illiteracy was such an accepted part of American life that 25 persent of the men who signed up for the draft in 1917 could neither read nor write.

Sting
b. 10-2-1951; England

Sting, a musician, singer-songwriter, activist, actor and philanthropist, was known as Gordon Sumner when he taught at a middle school for two years.

Bill Strickland
b. 1947

Anne Sullivan
b. 4-14-1866; Massachusetts
d. 10-20-1936; New York

Annie Sullivan, the daughter of Irish immigrants, is best remembered as the teacher and companion of Helen Keller.

The Miracle Worker, a play by William Gibson is based upon Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life. The title comes from Mark Twain who had called Sullivan a “Miracle Worker”.

Anne Sullivan quote ~
• “I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less “showily”. Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.”

Shinichi Suzuki
b. 10-17-1898; Nagoya, Japan
d. 1-26-1998; Matsumoto

FYI - Did you know?... when Suzuki violin studied in Germany in the early 1930s he was under the guardianship of Albert Einstein.