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Martin Luther
Martin Luther was responsible for having schools teach chidren how to read. He had everyone learn to read the bible and made sure everyone could read it in their native language. He is the reason why children learn to read and learn now a days. -
John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius believed children needed to learn and start to be educated at a young age. Comenius quotes " a young plant can be planted, transplanted, pruned, and bent this way or that. When it has become a tree these processes are impossible." He also believed that children should be taugh through their senses. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau believed in "natural" education, which ment that children will learn best without any restrictions or interferences. He thought the best way for children to learn is to have a teacher for different groups depending on the developmental levels each child has. -
Robert Owen
Owen's believed that chidren's environments add to their behavior, beliefs and development. Early childhood professionals used education to reform society and make the world a better place because of the beliefs of Robert Owen. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel
Froebel also known as "father of the kindergarten" believed in educators watching children naturally unfold and find activities to help the children learn what they are ready to learn at the right time. -
Robert Owens' Nursery School
Robert Owen opened an infant school in 1816 in New Lanark, Scotland.It was opened for the children of the parents who worked for his cotton mills he owned. Children would rage from eighteen months to ten years old. -
Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori was interested in finding a educational solution for deafness, paralysis, and mental retardation. She believed that children learn on their own. -
National Defense Educational Act of 1958
National Defense Educational Act provided funds for science, technology, engineering, math and foreign language education. This was the beginning of federal standards in education.
