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Simone Weil (1909-1943)
philosopher, high school teacher, autobiographer, poet, trade unionist, French resistance fighter, diarist, translator
- Lycée Henri-IV, École Normale Supérieure
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
motivational speaker, teacher, biographer, psychologist, lecturer
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts
John Dewey (1859-1952)
philosopher, psychologist, pedagogue, professor, sociologist, trade unionist, aesthetician, teacher
- Johns Hopkins University, University of Vermont
Ernest Mandel (1923-1995)
economist, journalist, resistance fighter, philosopher, politician, teacher
Martin Buber (1878-1965)
philosopher, existentialist, translator, pedagogue, literary editor, Bible translator, educator, zionist, theologian, librettist
- University of Vienna, Humboldt University of Berlin
Roman Jakobson (1896-1982)
linguist, literary scholar, pedagogue, historian, critic, teacher, philologist
- Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University, College of Philosophy of the Prague German University
Grant Allen (1848-1899)
naturalist, botanist, teacher
- University of Oxford
Jon Scieszka (born 1954)
teacher
- Albion College, Columbia University School of the Arts