All names in this
Index are by birth-certificate, which may not be the name by which you know
them
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corner of every screen there is a flat rectangular box with an icon of a
magnifying-glass: your search bar. You may well find it easier to find the
person you are seeking there
Anton Wilhelm Amo (circa 1703-1759): Ghana'an-born scholar, the first African to receive
a doctorate (Wittenberg), and to teach (Halle) at a
European university [Africa]
Thomas Arnold (born June 13 1795, died June 12 1842) with
son Matthew on Dec 24; what he did to transform Rugby
School, and with it English education (not necessarily for its long-term good,
but that’s another matter), here
Françoise d'Aubigné, also known
as Madame (Marquise) de Maintenon:
(1635-1719): in prison on Nov
27; Queen of France on the
Ancien
Régime page of Woman-Blindness, and among the Educators
because she founded the first girls' boarding school
John de Balliol: (born circa 1208; died October 25 1268): key to
the transformation of Oxford Yeshiva into Oxford University (click here), through
his connection with Fra
Roger Bacon
Margaret Beaufort (born
May 31 1443; died June 29 1509): mother of Henry VII, founder of both St. John's and
Christ's colleges in Grantabridge, and her name-college, Lady Margaret Hall, in
Oxenford.. and a great deal more, but see April 15 and 29, and especially
the Mediaeval page of "Woman-Blindness". Buried in the
south aisle of Henry VII’s chapel at Westminster Abbey
(their bio of her here)
Benjamin Samuel Bloom: born February 21 1913; compared with Pavlov on his death-date, Sept 13 1999; referenced on Feb 21 and Aug 9;
bio and taxonomy here
Andrew Carnegie (born Nov
25 1835; died August 11 1919): made his money in steel, but here because
he used it to fund libraries; and there are also the Carnegie Museum of Art, here; a museum in Pittsburg here; a music venue in New York here; a list of still more Carnegie
organisations at the website of his birthplace museum, here; plus the bio here; the ethos of the libraries here; a list of Carnegie libraries in
the UK here and more about one particular one here...is that enough?
Prudence Crandall: (born September 3 1803; died Jan 28 1890): teaching P.L Dunbar
on Feb 9; bio here [also on responses to bullying]
Juan Latino, Afro-Spanish
scholar: appointed as Head of Grammar at the Cathedral School of Granada in
1565 [Africa]; Spanish view here, Cambridge view here
Margaret of Anjou: founding the first women's college on April 15 (but see April
29 as well); much more on
the Mediaeval page of Woman-Blindness; with her husband Henry VI, and their son Edward IV, on the Aenglisch
list
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori (born Aug 31 1870; died May 6
1952): her society website here; the 1946 London
lectures here; the banishment of
the Poetika by macho male here
John Percival (born September 27 1834; died December 3 1918): educational
role-modelling on May 19 and Dec 24: full bio here
Jean William Fritz Piaget (born on Aug 9 1896; died September 16 1980): referenced on Feb 5 and June 24; but should also be read alongside Isaac Luria on Aug 5 and Bloom’s
Taxonomy on Sept 13; UNESCO bio here; cognitive
development theory here and here
Henrietta
Rowland (Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston Barnett DBE) (born
May 4 1851; died June 10 1936) building Toynbee
Hall on June 5; the
school named for her here
Samuel Augustus Barnett (born
February 8 1844; died June 17 1913): building Toynbee Hall with, inter alia,
his wife Henrietta...
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