When I recall the Scottish Headmistress of my
all girls' high school - she still has that power
to send chills down my spine. She was really something.
They don't make educators like her anymore.

She was
much loved and respected despite the fact that all us
girls were scared of you. She would make us march in
a uniform parade every Wednesday so that she could
check out every one of us to make she we were in full
uniform and presentable. After the uniform she would
hold Assembly in the Great Hall - where she gave us
speeches on how to be ladies.

If you were ever called into her office she'd keep you
waiting outside for fifteen minutes (seemed like ages)
and I of course would confess to everything even before
I was asked.

She convinced us girls that we could "grace any social
gathering." That we were winners.

An awesome teacher.

Helen Clark NZ
Contrary to John Howard she refused to join the coalition against terror (or axes of evil) and avoided for New Zealand to send troops to an unnecessary war in Iraq and Afghanistan which was based on lies created by Bush junior, Cheney, Ashcroft, Libby and Rumsfield. There are no politicians in Australia yet who would have the guts to stand for an independent foreign policy.

Foxy: It's Julie Bishop.

I thought a Role Model was someone you looked up to, not down on.

Gawd, she's a Politician. How th'.

My only Role Model(s) would be my Parents.

My father, ran his Cane Carting & Harvester Business. Despite having a broken neck & being very ill with Ulcers all his life. He only went to Seventh Grade at a one room School on a horse. He raised seven kids who all turned out well. There wasn't anything he couldn't turn his hand at. Mom kept us fed & healthy & educated. Well, 10th. Grade, in those days. & Yes we got the strap from Mom, if we needed it.

There's not another person that would come close to them.

Well Toni Lavis, I did say I was not too sure about his personal life.

"I hadn't even heard of Norman Borlaug until it was brought up in this discussion."

Yes the man saved, arguably, a billion lives but is virtually unknown. The reasons are fairly simple - his solution to the problems he saw coming was not acceptable to the current political class. His solution was to give the farmers the means and tools to address the problem with a minimum of government involvement. That isn't the solution that they want to hear.

Paul R Ehrlich (not the Nobel winner) on the other hand is quite famous and lauded. As a futurist he could hardly have been more wrong in what he predicted yet his solutions to the problems which he foretold involved maximum government intervention and this is the message the green/left class want to hear. So despite being comprehensively shown to have been wrong, he is widely known and praised.

Here's another couple of names you should have but probably haven't heard because their message wasn't what the powers-that-be wanted to hear: Julian Simon who debunkd the views of Ehrlich and many other doomsayers and was therefore ignored; John Daly from Tasmania who, in a better world, would be as famous a Taswegian as Flynn.

mhaze, a more likely reason for his relative obscurity was that Norman Borlaug didn't seek fame. Most people outside politics and showbiz don't, as it's often more trouble than it's worth.

Paul R Ehrlich is quite famous but very few would laud him. Julian Simon would probably be more famous if he were still alive.

John Daly did not do anything particularly noteworthy.