This is a graphical timeline of philosophical/cultural milestones that are significant to my educational philosophy. The image is a panoramic photo I took at the California Academy of Science in SF.

1. Buddha: he taught that everyone has the capacity to arrive at understanding from within.
2. Plato: While traveling in Greece by myself I read Plato's Pheadrus and formed a sense that the art of rhetoric and the art of Love are one in the same means to understanding the human condition.
3. Euclid: The father of geometry; the simplest numerical and visual relative structure of our physical environment.
4. Ishi: He was a direct link to a (native) way of life that exhibited a symbiotic relationship with the earth that our culture has so thoroughly oppressed. Understanding that he needed to transfer some of his unique knowledge to the white man's world, he taught his "way" by conducting demonstrations of tool building and usage at the Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco until his death.
5. John Muir: He understood the importance of preserving vast wild places for human education, recreation, and for the earth itself.
6. Paolo Soleri
7. Richard Stallman: for his belief that veryone should have the right to access and modify software code. with the ultimate goal of liberating everyone "in cyberspace"[3] – that is, every computer user.
8. Tim Berners-lee: Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. talk. He has a dream that the web could be less of a television channel and more of an interactive sea of shared knowledge.