Famous Educators, Notable Teachers, Posters & Prints “Ab...-Ad...-”
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Edwin Abbott
Henry Adams

John Adams
Maude Adams

Edwin Abbott
b. 12-20-1838; London, England
d. 10-12-1926

Edwin Abbott, a teacher and author of Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions, which is a math satire and religious allegory of a two dimensional world where the square narrator guides readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. Isaac Asimov said in the Foreword that “The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions.”

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Peter Abelard
b. 1069; Le Pallet, Brittany, France
d. 4-21-1142; Chalon-sur-Saone

Heloise
b. 1101?
d. 5-16-1164; Ferreux-Quincey, France

Abelard quote ~
• “We call the intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention. The same act may be done by the same man at different times. According to the diversity of his intention, however, this act may be at one time good, at another bad.”
Heloise quote ~
• “Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.” Letters

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Henry Adams
b. 2-16-1838; Boston, MA
d. 3-27-1918; Washington, DC

Journalist Henry Adams, Professor of Medieval History at Harvard, is most remembered for his introspective autobiography The Education of Henry Adams where he concluded that traditional classical education failed to prepare him for the scientific and technological 20th century. Education won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize.

Henry Adams quotes ~
• “No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself.”
• “Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
• “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
• “Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.”
• “Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.”
• “I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.”

John Adams
b. 10-30-1735; Braintree, MA
d. 7-4-1826

John Adams, a significant leader in the American Independence movement and 2nd President of the United States, taught for one year in Worcester, Massachusetts beginning in 1755, after graduating from Harvard, and before studying law.

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Maude Adams
née Maude Ewing Kiskadden
b. 11-11-1872; SLC, Utah
d. 7-17-1953; NY

Stage actress Maude Adams achieved her greatest success as Peter Pan to become the most successful and highest-paid performer of her day, with a yearly income of more than one million dollars at her peak.

Adams also headed the drama department at Stephens College in Missouri from 1937 to 1943, becoming well-known as an inspiring teacher in the arts of acting.

“Cannonball” Adderley
b. 9-15-1928; Tampa, FL
d. 8-8-1975; Gary, IN (stroke)

Instrumental music teacher Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley, was a jazz alto saxophonist. He had his own groups and played with other music greats such as Ray Charles in the early 1940s and Miles Davis in the late 1950s and 60s.

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Mortimer Adler, Photographic Print

Mortimer Adler
b. 12-28-1902; NYC, New York
d. 6-28-2001; Palo Alto, California

Mortimer Adler, philosopher, educator, and popular author, was one of the founders of the Great Books of the Western World program.

Mortimer Adler quotes ~
• “Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.”
• “Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.”
• “Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.”

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