Secondary School Teacher

🇫🇷Simone Weil

Philosophy

1909–1943

"The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege."

🇫🇷Jean-Henri Fabre

Science

Félibrige

1823–1915

"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity."

🇺🇸Bel Kaufman

Education

1911–2014

"When I had asked why they were taking English, a boy said: "To help us in real life."

🇩🇪Albrecht Thaer

Mathematics

1855–1921

"In the greater number of cases, peat is very much like acid or sour humus; indeed, it sometimes resembles it so strikingly that it is impossible to distinguish these substances apart."

🇫🇷Stéphane Mallarmé

Art

Surrealism

1842–1898

"Selected works of Stéphane Mallarmé in French"