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Ernest J. Gaines
Galileo Galilei

Edward M. Gallaudet
Howard Gardner

Ernest J. Gaines
b. 1-15-1933; Pointe Coupee Parish, LA

Ernest Gaines, the son of sharecroppers, was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying.

Gaines, who teaches creative writing, has also been a MacArthur Foundation fellow, awarded the National Humanities Medal, and inducted into the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) as a Chevalier.

Ernest J. Gaines quotes ~
• “I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.”
• “Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.”
• “I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be.”
• “Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.”
• “Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.”
• “Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”
• “I hope when I die, they won't put on my tombstone, ‘He wrote Miss Jane Pittman.’ Put anything else, but don't put just that.”
• “Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.”

Galileo Galilei
b. 2-15-1564, Pisa, Italy
d. 1-8-1642; Italy

Galileo taught mathematics at the University of Pisa, and geometry, mechanics, and astronomy at the University of Padua.

Poster text: “The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.” -Galileo Galilei - Quoted in M. Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times

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Edward M. Gallaudet
b. 2-5-1837; Hartford, CT
d. 9-26-1917

Professor Edward Miner Gallaudet, the president of the first college for the deaf, Gallaudet College, was a staunch advocate of sign language. He valued of speech training, but also recognized that speech training was not for everyone.

Howard Gardner
b. 7-11-1943; Scranton, PA

Howard Gardner, a developmental psychologist, is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hubbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education . . . He is also a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, twenty-one honorary degrees, and author of more than twenty books. (from book flap)

Howard Gardner quote ~
• “Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.”

Caleb Gattegno
b. 11-11-1911; Alexandria, Egypt
d. 7-28-1988; Paris, France

Caleb Gattegno, author and thinker about education is best known for his “science of education” based on the awareness of awareness, and that teaching should be subordinated to learning, requiring that as an absolute prerequisite teachers must understand how people learn. He also created many learning materials; for example he worked closely with Georges Cuisenaire in the development and promotion of Cuisenaire rods.

Caleb Gattengo quote ~
• “We shall endow a certain number . . . of humans with one attribute: awareness. This is a most primitive reality. Every reader will know at once that he or she has it. Indeed, awarness is that property of one's self which ascertains that one is, at this moment, reading these words.”

John Taylor Gatto
b. 12-15-1935; Monongahela, PA

Author and teacher (retired) is an education activist critical of compulsory schooling.

John Taylor Gatto quote ~
• “The logic of the school-mind is that it is better to leave school with a tool kit of superficial jargon derived from economics, sociology, natural science, and so on than with one genuine enthusiasm.”