Education Archives - Page 46 of 60

Veronica Ryan

Irish founder and headmistress of the Children’s House Montessori School

Mary E Garrett

American philanthropist who donated money to start the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1893 on the condition that the school would accept women students “on the same terms as men”.

Soraya Tarzi

Queen Soraya Tarzi of Afghanistan pushed to modernise the country from the 1920s onward, promoting freedoms and rights for women.

Mauritian political Aïssata Touré Kane served as the country’s first female government minister as part of President Moktar Ould Daddah’s cabinet from 1975 to 1978, when the government was overthrown by a military coup.

Olive Mellor

Olive Mellor was a pioneer and advocate of women’s horticultural and garden design education and professional status. She became one of the first Australian trained professional horticulturist and garden designers, designing over 500 gardens throughout her career. She was a published author, radio broadcaster and wrote prolifically for magazines and newspapers.

Cora Wilson Stewart

American educator and reformer, known as “The Moonlight-School Lady”.

Alice Easton Law

At New Zealand’s Jubilee Institute for the Blind, she taught the piano and encouraged her students to believe that visual impairment was no impediment to music. Using Braille, she guided them through their examinations and produced several high-quality musicians.

Mary Blythe Law

Mary Law’s influence on teaching the blind was immense. When she began working at the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, education for the blind in New Zealand and elsewhere was limited to imparting basic knowledge and survival skills. Early New Zealand teachers such as Jane Collier had gone resolutely against this trend, introducing innovative teaching methods: these were picked up and extended by Mary Law.