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400 BCE
Socrates and Plato
- The socratic method helped students to come their own conclusions
- The best answer a teacher can give to a student question is "What do you think?"
- Plato believed that you could never "kill an idea" but instead an idea was constantly changing AGEDU Today: Socratic method is used in agriculture classrooms across the country in order to help students process information fro themselves. Plato's contribution shows through the foundations of AG being universal but constantly changing
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Johann, Amus, Comenius
- Promoted education for career success
- Children shouldn't be punished for failure instead use it as a teaching experience
- Learning should be adapted to student's needs
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
-head,heart and hands
- focused on hands on learning -
Charles Sanders Pierce
- pragmatism
- practical application
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John Dewey
- believed in importance of vocational education
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Smith and Hughes
-education needed to be relevant to student's lives -
Dr. David A. Kolb
-Experiential learning -
Howard Gardner
-believed in multiple intelligences
- believed students learned best when taught the intelligence they were strongest in