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John Locke
John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism" -
Christian von Wolff
Christian Wolff was a German philosopher. The mountain Mons Wolff on the Moon is named in his honor. Wolff was the most eminent German philosopher between Leibniz and Kant. -
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat -
Johan Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach -
Noah Webster
Noah Webster, Jr., was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education" -
Friedrich Froebel
Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel was a German pedagogue, a student of Pestalozzi who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. -
Horace Mann
Horace Mann was an American politician and educational reformer. A Whig devoted to promoting speedy modernization, he served in the Massachusetts State Legislature. -
Catherine Beecher
Catharine Esther Beecher was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education -
WIlliam Holmes McGuffey
William Holmes McGuffey was a college president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of textbooks. -
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell was a British-born physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register -
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community -
Alfred Binet
lfred Binet was a French psychologist who invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet-Simon scale. -
John Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform -
Maria Montessori
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. -
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget was a clinical psychologist known for his pioneering work in child development. theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology". -
Lev Vgotsky
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist, the founder of a theory of human cultural and bio-social development commonly referred to as cultural-historical psychology, and leader of the Vygotsky Circle -
Benjamin Bloom
Benjamin Samuel Bloom was an American educational psychologist who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery-learning. -
Madeline C. Hunter
Madeline Cheek Hunter was an American educator who developed a model for teaching and learning that was widely adopted by schools during the last quarter of the 20th century -
Herbert R. Kohl
Herbert R. Kohl is an educator best known for his advocacy of progressive alternative education and as the author of more than thirty books on education -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American activist known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana during the 20th century. She attended William Frantz Elementary School