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Biography of Fannie Fern Phillips Andrews
Name: Fannie Fern Phillips Andrews
Birth Date: 1867
Death Date: 1950
Place of Birth: Lynn, Massachusetts, United States
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Gender: Female
Occupations: Educator, reformer, anti-war activist
Fannie Fern Phillips Andrews
Fannie Fern Phillips Andrews (1867-1950) was an educator who fought endlessly for the promotion of peace studies through an international bureau of education.Fannie Fern Phillips Andrews was an educator who campaigned tirelessly for an international bureau of education to promote peace studies. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of a shoemaker father and a mother who was president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Deciding at age three that she wanted to be a teacher, Andrews later attended Salem Normal School in Massachusetts and then taught for six years before receiving her degree in psychology and education from Radcliffe College in 1902. Her work in the public schools of Boston convinced her that students from different ethnic and economic backgrounds had to be taught to communicate and negotiate with each other. Her core belief that men who make war are spurred to conflict by their inability to understand one …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…conference to consider the logistics of such an institution when World War I erupted. She had already caught the attention of President Woodrow Wilson, however, and in 1918 he picked Andrews to attend the Paris Peace Conference. There she lobbied for the emerging League of Nations to include in its covenant a provision for her dream of an international bureau of education, but she was unsuccessful. During the war she received a post-graduate degree in international affairs, never losing sight of her goal of an international school curriculum which would promote justice and understanding. Andrews maintained her dedication to promoting peace studies until her death, serving in the International Law Association, the World Peace Foundation, and the International Guild. Associated Organizations Further Reading J. McKeen Cattell, ed., Leaders in Education: A Biographical Directory (New York: The Science Press, 1932).Alden Whitman, ed., American Reformers (New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1985), pp. l22-123.
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