Laura Thompson
Professor of Biology
- Email: laura.thompson@furman.edu
- Phone: 864.294.2085
- Office: Plyler 132E
Dr. Laura Thompson enjoys learning about plants and how humans use them as food, fiber, medicine, and decoration. She is currently developing a fiber/dye garden and an ethnobotany garden for Furman University.
Education
- Ph.D.,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- B.S., James Madison University
Philosophy
Gandhi writes "Question may be asked how intelligence can be developed through the takli or the spinning wheel when you give him the history of cotton and its connection with civilization itself and take him to the village field where it is grown, and teach him to count the round he spins and the method of finding the evenness and strength of his yarn, you hold his interest and simultaneously train his hands, his eyes and his mind." This is Applied Plant Science. (Gandhi MK 1969 "The Selected Works of Gandhi -- Buniyadi Shiksha - Basic Education ed. by Shirman Narayan Vol 6 The Voice of Truth. Ahmedabad Navajivan Publishing House 544p).
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