Tonight we are celebrating the life & career of naturalist Jane Goodall! 💚 Please join me, @catbirder27.bsky.social and @fleurdela.bsky.social for a special tag from The #Educationalist at 10pm ET - 7pm PT. 🩵 Many thanks to @calendargirlbot.bsky.social for weaving all the accounts together! 🩷
Gwen Alston in B&W photo with a sharp 1920s fringed bob
Gwen Alston (née Hannah Gwendolen Shone) #aerodynamicist & #educationalist. #WWII worked on spinning tunnels & aircraft flight-testing & later in flight education & as HM Inspector. Her test pilot Winkle Brown called her "a truly remarkable lady boffin" d 14 Jul 1993 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Al...
" #Desiderius-Erasmus #Roterodamus, commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a #Dutch Christian #humanist, #Catholic priest and #theologian, #educationalist, #satirist, and #philosopher."
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Gwen Alston in B&W headshot photo. 1920s sharp bob, looking directly at camera
Gwen Alston #aerodynamicist & #educationalist worked on spinning tunnels & aircraft flight-testing in #WWII & later in flight education & as HM Inspector. Her test pilot Eric 'Winkle' Brown called her "a truly remarkable lady boffin". b 22 May 1907 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Al... #WomenInSTEM
“He who allows oppression shares the crime.” #erasmus
October 28, 1466 -
July 12, 1536
#dutch #humanist
#writer #scholar #theologian
#philosopher #thinker
#satirist
#educationalist
#renaissance
#quote
#quoteoftheday
#oppression
#resistance
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
#anthonyburgess #botd
February 25, 1917-
November 22, 1993
#english #writer
#novelist #critic
#composer #essayist
#screenwriter
#playwright
#translator
#linguist
#educationalist
#quote
#aclockworkorange
#writing #onwriting
Thanks for playing #WhatEducationMeansToMe to celebrate The International Day of Education this Friday
Thanks to the #Educationalist for letting me guest host on Bluesky.
Since today is Martin Luther King Jr Day, I'll leave you with his quote below
We honour LP Jacks (Principal @HMCOxford 1915-31) who died #OTD in 1955. Jacks was a renowned #philosopher, editor of the #Hibbert Journal, & #educationalist. @UKUnitarians @artukdotorg @UnitarianHist
🖼️LP Jacks by George Harcourt
