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Quintilian was a Rhetorician of the Imperial Rome. He recognized the importance of a student's individual differences. He advised instruction be appropriate for their readiness and abilities. He urged teachers to motivate students by interesting and engaging lessons. -
He was a jeweler that invented durable metal alloy to form letters for the printing press. His press multiplied output of books and cut the cost. This dramatically advanced literacy and schools. He also published the Gutenberg Bible. -
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Franklin was a statesman, scientist, and publicist. He found the Academy, a private secondary school. He recognized how important Science, invention and technology would be in American future. His schools taught skills for workforce as well as advancement education. -
Pestalozzi's education method emphasized the mind, body, and soul or the whole child. He felt children should learn through experience. He thought the classroom should be like a family, both loving and caring. -
Jefferson was the author of Declaration of Independence and the US 3rd president. He wrote a Bill for the more "General Diffusion of Knowledge." He felt the education purpose was a republican society of literate and well-informed citizens. Thought both boys and girls should attend elementary school. -
Froebel created kindergarten. He was an idealist and naturalist. He thought school should be an emotionally stable place to learn and the best way was to learn through play. He believed every child should be treated as an individual and had unique abilities that should be encouraged to grow. -
Beecher was an educator known for female education. She made a plan for the physical, social, intellectual, and moral education for women. She organized societies for training teachers and supplying good educators to schools. Founded the American Women's Educational Association. -
Dewey was a philosopher, and experimentalist. He centered development and education on the human experience. He thought education should be based on the principle of learning by doing. -
Montessori was a women educator that believed women should have higher education. She was the 1st women in Italy to get a degree in Dr. of Medicine. She was interested in early childhood education. -
Piaget proposed a theory of cognitive development in children. He believed in environmental learning and was a constructivist that thought you learned knowledge of world through creative processes.