Quote of the day
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Wilbur S. Jackman
Born: 1855
Died: January 28, 1907 (aged 52)
Bio: Wilbur Samuel Jackman was an American educator and one of the originators of the nature study movement. Shortly after he was born in Mechanicstown, Ohio, his family moved to California, Pennsylvania where he spent his boyhood growing up on a farm.
Known for:
- Nature Study for the Common Schools (1891)
- Number Work in Nature Study (1893)