Education Archives - Page 110 of 148

Máire MacSwiney Brugha

Irish teacher, author and charity worker

Maeve Curtis

Irish journalist and teacher

Mary Ellen Bews achieved renown for her role as co-founder and principal of Mount Eden College, a private secondary school for girls which flourished in Auckland at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Elizabeth Gregory

New Zealand university professor of home science

Mary Joseph Aubert

Mother Aubert’s career in New Zealand spanned more than six decades. There was scarcely one of these decades in which she did not initiate a new venture or stamp her personality on some major project. Her lasting legacy to New Zealand was the religious order she founded.

Máirín Beaumont

Irish teacher and nationalist

Sophia St John Whitty

Irish woodcarver, teacher and cooperativist

Mabel Hodge

New Zealand teacher and headmistress

Marie Bell

Marie Bell was an educator and tireless campaigner for the rights of both children and parents, challenging educational orthodoxies to ensure more child-centred practices and an environment more supportive of parents.