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Emma Curtis Hopkins
1849 – 1925The 'teacher of teachers' who trained the founders of Unity, Divine Science and Religious Science.
John Dewey
1859 – 1952Pragmatist whose learning-by-doing reshaped schools on every continent.
Benedict Lust
1872 – 1945German émigré who founded American naturopathy and its first college in 1902.
John Rawls
1921 – 2002A Theory of Justice: fairness derived from behind the veil of ignorance.
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968Letter from Birmingham Jail and a movement that rewrote American law.
Rachel Naomi Remen
b. 1938Built The Healer's Art curriculum, taught in medical schools on four continents.
Andrew Weil
b. 1942Founded the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and trained a generation of fellows.
Martha Nussbaum
b. 1947Capabilities approach to justice, and a defence of emotion in public reason.
Joseph Pizzorno
b. 1948Co-founded Bastyr University, the first accredited natural-medicine university in the United States.