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A Mesopotamia school with a primary focus of teaching cuneiform (Spada, 2014).
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This university was founded in 859 and is still in existence today (Guinness World Records, n.d).
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The first public school in America was opened in Boston, Massacheusetts to train boys for college BLSA.
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A Danish bishop who was disliked the idea that education was for the elites of society (Britannica, 2019).
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Based on the ideas of Nikolai Grundtvig, Kristen Kold opened the first school in Denmark in 1844 "where the peasant and the citizen can obtain knowledge and guidance..." (Smith, 2011).
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Dr. Montessori (1870-1952) discovered that, according to AMI (n.d.), that "children who were placed in an environment where activities were designed to support their natural development had the power to educate themselves."
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The belief that children learn best when they get to decide what to learn (Flavin, 2017).
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A law enacted in 2001 that requires states to test students in subjects such as reading and math to help make American education more competitive internationally (Klein, 2015)
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The first massive open online course (MOOC). MOOCs promote the idea of free education and learning for everyone (McGill, n.d).
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Daphne Koller was one of the founders of Coursera, one of the first MOOC sites. She believes that online learning is the future of learning Wolfe, 2015.
