Born in Miami, he was an educator and publisher.
Quote:
“If you've told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, then it is not the child who is a slow learner.”
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tricountyindependent/obituary.aspx?n=walter-burke-barbe&pid=196983935
(longish obit)
https://www.tricountyindependent.com/story/opinion/2020/10/16/wayne-county-legend-dr-walter-barbe-has-died-age-93/3679099001/
(long fond remembrance - worth reading)
https://prabook.com/web/walter_burke.barbe/807004
(resume)
From medium.com:
"Discover Your Learning Style"
Excerpt:
Walter Burke Barbe, born in 1926, earned his bachelor’s in science, masters and PhD from Northwestern University. Barbe set out to investigate the modality strengths of individuals identifying three varying channels for learning, namely visual,
auditory and kinesthetic. His research, with his colleagues Milone and Swassing, discovered individuals demonstrated approximately 30% visual strength, 30% mixed strengths, 25% auditory with 15% kinesthetic...
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