Who are considered great? People whose ideas were born ahead of their time

Who are considered great?

People whose ideas were born ahead of their time

                                                      Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor

Our world goes around and around, fortunate that there are people whose ideas were born ahead of their time? From these ideas bloomed into many ideas that found expression in a multitude of ways that feed of rationality as being and society. It is to these people to whom we dedicate this lesson on Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid. In so doing we may lay down an alternative path and present models of living particularly to the youth of today.

We have chosen for this purpose the following great men and women from various nations. 

1. Louis Pasteur – Father of immunology, science in the service of man 

Louis Pasteur, PHOTO (born December 27, 1822, Dole, France—died September 28, 1895, Saint-Cloud), French chemist and microbiologist who was one of the most important founders of medical microbiology. Pasteur’s contributions to science, technology, and medicine are nearly without precedent. He pioneered the study of molecular asymmetry; discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease; originated the process of pasteurization; saved the beer, wine, and silk industries in France; and developed vaccines against anthrax and rabies.

2. Charles Darwin – Interpreter of the pattern of life, founder of theory of evolution

3. Florence Nightingale – Founder of the nursing profession

4. Mother Teresa of Calcutta – The living saint

5. Joan of Arc – The saint who freed France 

6. Albert Schweitzer – Road of “the life of service” PHOTO
7. Abraham Lincoln – Champion in the emancipation of slavery
8. Jose Rizal – The pride of the Malay race
9. Francis of Assisi – Father of Ecology, the “upside down” Saint
10. Robert Baden-Powell – Chief scout of the world

11. Leonardo da Vinci – The man of many minds
12. Pablo Picasso – Painter of an epoch
13. Anna Pavlova – Prima Ballerina
14. Ludwig van Beethoven Stormy genius of music
15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Prodigy whose genius is therapy

 

 Great musicians and composers   

Top: Filipino composers Nicanor Abelardo and Francisco Santiago; 

middle row:  Mozart, Debussy; bottom: Tchaikovsky,Vivaldi

16. Galileo – Greatest of early scientist
17. Carolus Linnaeus – Introduced systematic classification of living things
18. Juan Luna – His Spolarium inspired a people to gain freedom

19. Fernando Amorsolo – Master of romantic-classical painting
20. Thomas Alva Edison – Man of practical knowledge

21. Wilbur and Orville Wright – Conquerors of the Air
22. Charles Dickens – Life of the imagination
23. Gregor Mendel – Founder of the laws of heredity
24. Ramon Magsaysay – Champion of the masses PHOTO
25. Christopher Columbus – Discoverer of a new world

26. Alexander the Great – Conqueror of Kings 
27. Socrates – Man of Character
28. John F Kennedy – Charismatic American leader.
29. William, Shakespeare – Greatest dramatist
30. Mao Tze Tung – Steered The Sleeping Giant China to become a modern nation (PHOTO)

“ I will be telling you this with a sigh,

  Ages and ages hence

  where two roads meet in a wood.

  And I, I took the road less traveled by.

  And that is what made the difference.” 

                                             - Robert Frost