Famous Educators, Notable Teachers, Posters & Prints “Pe...-”
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Elizabeth Peabody
b. 5-16-1804; Billerica, MA
d. 1-3-1894; Jamaica Plain, MA

Transcendentalist, abolitionist, and gifted teacher Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, best remembered as one of the accomplished Peabody sisters opened the first English language kindergarten in the United States, ran a bookstore from her home where Margaret Fuller held “Conversations”, and worked for the rights of the Paiute Indians. Her tutor for Greek was Ralph Waldo Emerson and she was a teaching assistant to Amos Bronson Alcott (Louisa May Alcott's father).

Elizabeth's sisters, Mary (1805-1887) and Sophia (1809-1871), also made marriages to notable men: Mary became the wife of Horace Mann and Sophia married Nathaniel Hawthorne.

• The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

Frances Perkins
b. 4-10-1882; Boston, MA
d. 5-14-1965; New York

Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945, was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. She had taught and been a volunteer at Hull House in Chicago before going into government service, and returned to teaching as a lecturer at Cornell afterwards.

Frances Perkins quotes ~
• “Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.”
• “To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.”
• “In America, public opinion is the leader.”

• The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience

Jules Perrot
b. 8-18-1810; Lyon, France
d. 8-29-1892; France

Jules Perrot was a renowned 19th century danseur (male ballet dancer), choreographer, and Balletmaster of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet. Perrot also choregraphed the divertimento (amusement) “Pas de Quatre” that brought together the leading ballerinas of the time.

In 1874 artist Edgar Degas honored Jules Perrot in one of his dance painting by imagining the dance master commanding a practice session in the recently destroyed Paris Opera House.

Gen. Pershing Inspecting Machine Gun Troops of All Black 10th Cavalry, Photographic Print

General John “Black Jack” Pershing
b. 9-13-1860; Laclede, MO
d. 7-15-1948

Pershing, who lead the World War I American Expeditionary Force (AEF) and is considered the mentor of the US generals in the European Theatre of WWII, served as a teacher in rural Missouri before he attended West Point. His experience with African American children helped with racial issues when he commanded a racially diverse unit of soldiers.

• My Experiences in the World War by John Joseph Pershing

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
b. 2-3-1746; Zurich, Switzerland
d. 1-11-1827

"The child must be educated to be not only a skilled laborer, or an artisan, or a scholar, but a satisfactory husband to his wife, father to his son, citizen of his country. He must be able in his particular place in the community to be self-reliant and to help the others."

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss educational reformer whose theories laid the foundation of modern elementary education. His masterpiece, Leonard and Gertrude (1891), is an account of the gradual reformation, first of a household, and then of a whole village, by the efforts of a good and devoted woman.

Pestalozzi was influential to Friedrich Froebel, Branson Alcott (father of Louisa May Alcott), Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herbert Spencer.

• Raising Curious, Creative, Confident Kids: The Pestalozzi Experiment in Child-Based Education

Marius Petipa
b. 3-11-1818; Marseille, France
d. 7-14-1910; Crimea, Russia

Marius Petipa, a ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer, is cited nearly unanimously to be the most influential balletmaster and choreographer that has ever lived.