Education
- Edward L. Ayers, President of the University of Richmond
- Landrum Bolling, Mercy Corps director at large, former Earlham College president and noted negotiator
- Guy Bailey, 15th President of Texas Tech University; President of the University of Alabama
- Philander P. Claxton Sr., founder of the UT Department of Education and U.S. commissioner of education from 1911 to 1921
- Bob Clement, President of Cumberland College and politician
- James A. Cramer, former President of World Learning and the School for International Training
- William Everett Derryberry, 4th President of Tennessee Technological University
- David L. Eubanks, President of Johnson Bible College
- John Gaventa, political sociologist
- Richard D. Holland, 10th President of the University of West Alabama
- John Thomas Mentzer (~1951-2010) Noted Marketing and Supply Chain Scholar; Outstanding Marketing Teacher; Bruce Chair of Excellence in Business at UTK.edu; prolific author.
- F. Ann Millner, 11th President of Weber State University
- Brian E. Noland, 9th President of East Tennessee State University, Chancellor of the West Virginia Higher Education Commission
- Linwood H. Rose, 5th President of James Madison University
- W. I. Thomas, sociologist
- Shirley C. Raines, President, University of Memphis
- Bernie L. Wade, Chancellor, International Circle of Faith Colleges and Seminaries
- John Rice Irwin, historian, founder of Museum of Appalachia
- Graham Leonard, BA '47 International Relations. Went on to receive his PhD in Education from Harvard University and worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees helping implement a national education system for Palestine. Visiting Scholar at Oxford University from 1968-1969
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“The Supreme Court would have pleased me more if they had concerned themselves about enforcing the compulsory education provisions for Negroes in the South as is done for white children. The next ten years would be better spent in appointing truant officers and looking after conditions in the homes from which the children come. Use to the limit what we already have.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“... in the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment ...”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)