History of Education

Celtic monastic education

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Celtic ChurchIn the 5th century, Celtic monasteries educated their societies and preserved much literature that was being lost. Celtic monks learned to reading, writing, and the arts.

School in Ancient Egypt

Jun 16, 1001

Heiroglyphics were invented around 3100 BC, with the shortened form, Heiratic, coming later. Students in ancient Egypt were the children of wealthy families. They went to school to learn to read and write heiroglyphics.

Public School in Ancient Greece

Jun 16, 1001

All schools in Sparta were owned by the state and considered to be public, but Spartan schools really only served the purpose of creating soldiers. Boys were sent to boarding schools where they were taught combat and physical training. They slept on the ground and endured cold and hungry times.
By contrast, the first true public schools started in Athens about the 4th century, BC. Boys were sent to school at about age 6 and learned reading, writing, physical training, and music.

Medieval Universities

Jun 16, 1100

Medieval UniversitiesMedieval universities stemmed from monastic schools and began mostly in Italy, Spain, France, and England. They were mostly for the general study of medicine, law, the arts, and theology.

Mass Printing

Jun 17, 1452

Gutenberg undertakes his first mass production, or "Bible project".

Telescope Invented

Jun 17, 1608

Hans Lippershey
Although other people probably invented other devices, Lippershey is credited with the invention.

First Public School in America

Jun 16, 1635

Latin School, Boston, MAPuritans established the first public school in America in the home of their schoolmaster. Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock attended this school.

Newton's Principia

Jun 17, 1687

Newton comes up with his laws of physics, changing the face of modern science.

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Jan 12, 1746

Pestalozzi is born in Zurich, Switzerland. Pestalozzi will go on to establish many educational institutions and also almost obliterate illiteracy in the area. His book, How Gertrude Teaches Her Children, gives his personal treatise on education. He believed in personal education, tailoring to the needs of the student.

Friedrich Froebel

Jun 16, 1782

Friedrich Froebel
Froebel is credited with inventing the term Kindergarten and also coming up with the basic concept thereof. He believed that preschool was extremely important for both the individual and society.

Horace Mann

Jun 16, 1796

Horace Mann Often called the Father of the Common School. Mann believed that all children should have a free education.

Catharine Beecher

Jun 16, 1800

Catharine Beecher
The sister of abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine Beecher spearheaded an effort to educate more women and to employ them as teachers.

John Dewey

Jun 16, 1859

Dewey pioneered the thinking that learning should be relative to students' lives. He is often credited with the progressive movement of education, which was the thought that school should be less authoritarian and rote learning and more experiential and relative.

Maria Montessori

Aug 31, 1870

Maria MontessoriMontessori began her work with mentally disabled children. She was frequently asked to speak to groups about education and was a pioneer of women's rights and the rights of disabled children. In 1907, she took a job to apply her knowledge of education for disabled children to children with normal mental capacity and the first Casa dei Bambini was born. Montessori schools can be found globally now.

Jean Piaget

Jun 16, 1896

Jean Piaget
Piaget is classified as a cognitivist. His theory of learning is that knowledge is a process of assimilation and accomodation - knowledge built upon knowledge.

Behaviorism

Jun 16, 1900

Less about thought processes, behaviorism rests on the idea that everything is measurable and observable in behavior.

Constructivism

Jun 16, 1932

Knolwedge is "constructed" by the learner. Learning is personal and has many inputs. Constructivism believes that learning is built upon the learners experiences.
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Cognitivism

Jun 16, 1950

Cognitivism
Cognitivism looks at the processes which are occuring in the mind during learning. The mind is more like a computer processor, as opposed to latter thoughts of the mind reacting to stimuli. Thought occurs and the brain processes factors to attain knowledge.

Brown v. Board of Education

Jun 17, 1954

Brown v. Board of Education stated that the idea of "separate but equal" does apply to public education and that segregation based on race denied children their rights under the 14th amendment.

Benjamin Bloom

Jun 16, 1956

Benjamin Bloom
Pioneered Bloom's Taxonomy, the idea that there are multiple objectives in learning. Started a movement to help in curricula and test development.

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Jun 17, 1965

Under Lyndon B. Johnson Congress enacts this law which provides for funding of elementary and secondary education, yet prohibits a national curriculum, leaving curriculum in the hands of the individual states.

First Email

Jun 17, 1971

First Email Message
Ray Tomlinson sent the first email message, a message to himself from one computer to another.

First Cell Phone Network

Jun 17, 1983

Mobile Phone History
AT&T launches the first cell phone network.

First Macintosh Computer

Jan 24, 1984

First Charter School

Jun 17, 1992

The first charter school, City Academy High School, is established in St. Paul, MN

First Text Message

Jun 17, 1992

Merry Christmas
This was the first text message sent by

Introduction of the World Wide Web

Jun 17, 1992

A programmer from CERN, Tim Berners-Lee, is credited with the WWW in 1991 and the first browser is launched in 1992.

No Child Left Behind Act

Jan 8, 2002

NCLB
NCLB was a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act which contained six subsets designed to raise pupil performance in the U.S.

Youtube Launch

Feb 17, 2005

YouTube
The video sharing site launches from three former PayPal employees. Bought by Google in 2006 for $1.65 bil.

IPad Release

Apr 17, 2010

Apple sells 300,000 iPads the first day of release. Since then, Apple has released two more generations of the iPad.