Education Timeline

By ANayjaSand

  • Horace Mann

    A visionary educator and proponent of public (or free) schools

  • The First Kindergarten

  • The National Teachers Association

  • Boston creates the first public day school for the deaf

  • The Dewey Decimal System

    The DDC is still the worlds most widely-used library classification system.

  • Booker T. Washington

    Becomes the first principal of the newly opened normal school

  • National Congress of Mothers

    Founded by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. It becomes the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA)

  • Mary McLeod Bethune

    An African American educator, founds the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in daytona Beach, Florida

  • The First Montessori School in the U.S

  • John Dewey's Democracy and Education

    An introduction to the Philosophy of Education

  • Jean Piaget's "The Child's Conception of the World" is published

  • Rosa Parks

    Refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a Caucasian passenger and is subsequently arrested and fined.