- Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner, born in Donji Kraljevec, Croatia, was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and esotericist. He was the founder of Anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medicine, and the new artistic form of Eurythmy. He characterized anthroposophy as follows: Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual component. - John Dewey
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism. - Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire (Recife, Brazil September 19, 1921 - São Paulo, Brazil May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and is a highly influential theorist of education. - A. S. Neill
Alexander Sutherland Neill (October 17, 1883 - September 23, 1973) was a Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. He is best known as an advocate of personal freedom for children. - Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich (Vienna, September 4,1926 - Bremen, December 2,2002) was an Austrian philosopher and anarchist social critic, whose polemics on various forms of professional authority earned him worldwide notoriety. Author of an informal series of critiques of the institutions of "modern" culture, he addressed issues such as education, medicine, work, energy use, economic development, and gender. His work was most widely known in the 1970s, yet today is hard to find, … - Neil Postman
Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 - October 5, 2003) was an American professor, media theorist, and cultural critic who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, "Amusing Ourselves to Death". For more than forty years, he was associated with New York University. Postman was an old-fashioned humanist, who believed that "there is a limit to the promise of new technology, and that it cannot be a substitute for human values." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. Rousseau also made important contributions to music both as a theorist and as a composer. - Wendy Priesnitz
Wendy Priesnitz is a Canadian alternative education and environmental advocate. She was leader of the Green Party of Canada from July 1996 to January 1997 when she abruptly resigned. She is known for the advocacy for homeschooling/unschooling and home-based/green business. She founded "The Canadian Alliance of Home Schoolers" in 1979, and is the author of numerous books on the homeschooling. - Daniel Greenberg
Daniel Greenberg (born c. 1934) is a founding member of the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Massachusetts. Beyond his accomplishments in academia, Mr. Greenberg's column can be read in the Metrowest Daily News. Daniel Greenberg has published several books and presented numerous lectures on the Sudbury model. During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict Mr. Greenberg traveled to Israel and reported on his findings and opined about the situation in the Metrowest Daily News. - Herbert Kohl
Herbert Kohl is an educator best known for his advocacy of progressive alternative education and as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books on education, … - John Bear
John Bjorn Bear, Ph.D. (born in 1938) is an expert on and proponent of distance education. He holds a bachelor's and master's from University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate from Michigan State University. He is the author of "Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning". He's co-author of the first two editions, but not editions 3, 4, or 5, of the book now called "Walston's Guide to Christian Distance Learning". - David Guterson
David Guterson (born May 4, 1956) is an American author and magazine journalist, formerly a high school English teacher. He is best known as the author of the novel "Snow Falling on Cedars" (1994), which won many awards, including the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. It was adapted for a 1999 film of the same title, directed by Scott Hicks and starring Ethan Hawke. In 2001, Guterson's novel was one of the targets of B.R. Myers's "A Reader's Manifesto", … - John Caldwell Holt
John Caldwell Holt (April_14, 1923 - September_14, 1985) was an American author and educator, one of the best known proponents of homeschooling, and a pioneer in youth rights theory. - George Counts
George Sylvester Counts (b. 1889, d. 1974) was an American educator and influential education theorist. - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer. He was born in Zürich. His father died when he was young, and he was brought up by his mother. At the University of Zürich he associated himself with Lavater and the party of reform. His earliest years were spent in schemes for improving the condition of the people. The death of his friend Bluntschli turned him from politics, however, and induced him to devote himself to education. - Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel
Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. In 1840 he created the word kindergarten for the Play and Activity Institute he had founded in 1837 at Bad Blankenburg for young children. He designed the educational materials known as Froebel Gifts, or Fröbelgaben, which included geometric building blocks and pattern activity blocks. - Kurt Hahn
Kurt Martin Hahn (5 June, 1886 - 14 December, 1974) was a German educator responsible for the creation of Outward Bound. - John Marsden
John Marsden (born September 27, 1950) is an Australian writer. - Amos Bronson Alcott
Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 - March 4, 1888) was an American teacher and writer. He is remembered for founding a short-lived and unconventional school as well as a utopian community known as "Fruitlands", and for his association with Transcendentalism. - Helen Parkhurst
Helen Parkhurst (January 3, 1887 - June 1, 1973) was an American educator, author, lecturer, the originator of the Dalton Plan and the founder of The Dalton School. Born at Durand, Wisconsin, she was graduated from Wisconsin State Teachers College in 1907, studied at the universities of Rome and Munich as well as with Maria Montessori and was awarded her M.A. in 1943 from Yale University. - Francis Wayland Parker
Francis Wayland Parker was a pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. He believed that education should include the complete development of an individual — mental, physical, and moral. John Dewey called him the "father of progressive education." Parker was born in Bedford, New Hampshire in Hillsborough County. He was educated in the public schools and began his career as a village teacher in New Hampshire at age 16. In August 1861, … - Caleb Gattegno
Caleb Gattegno (1911-1988) was an Egyptian mathematician of Jewish origin, teacher, author and lecturer, known for using color as a tool in his pedagogical approach to the teaching of reading, foreign languages and mathematics in primary and secondary schools. In particular, he became a strong advocate of the use of Cuisenaire rods, founding The Cuisenaire Company in Britain in 1954 to manufacture the rods and publish associated books and materials. - Mary Leppert
Mary Leppert is the founder and publisher of The Link Homeschool Newspaper (1995) and The Link Homeschool Newspaper Online (1999). The Link editions are the largest all-inclusive homeschool publications in North America. (All-inclusive means non-religious and religious.) Ms. Leppert also wrote two editions of the best-selling book on homeschooling, The Homeschooling Almanac, 2000-2001 and 2002-2003, … - Phoebe Child
Phoebe Child (1910-1990) was one of the pioneers of the Montessori Method of children's education and a co-founder of the Montessori World Educational Institute. Born in England, she first studied the Montessori approach with Dr. Maria Montessori in London in 1929. She then joined fellow students, Margaret Homfray, and Edna Andriano, in Italy to serve as English translators for the 1930 course in Rome. She, along with Margaret Homfray, continued to work with Dr. - Daniel Garvey
- Stanislav Shatsky
Stanislav Shatskii (alternative spelling Shatsky) (1878-1934) was an important late tsarist and early Soviet humanistic educator, writer, and educational administrator. Shatskii established a number of experimental and progressive educational institutions between 1905 and 1934. - Louis Colaianni
Louis Colaianni (born April 29, 1959 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a prominent voice, speech, dialect and text director in the professional theatre, and teacher of voice, speech, phonetics, acting and Shakespeare performance. He has taught in many actor-training programs and served as voice and text coach for productions at theatres throughout the United States, including, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, … - Cecil Reddie
Cecil Reddie, is the founder and headmaster of Abbotsholme School, 1889–1927. - Eugene "porky" Lee
Eugene Gordon Lee (October 25, 1933-October 16, 2005) was a former American child actor, most notable for appearing in the "Our Gang" ("Little Rascals") comedies as Porky from 1935 to 1939. During his tenure in "Our Gang", Porky, not Buckwheat as commonly believed, originated the catchphrase "O-tay!" He was born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA as simply "Eugene Lee", and was adopted. Lee got his break in motion pictures in 1935, … - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau lived for thirty years with an uneducated seamstress named Thérèse Lavasseur, whom he met in 1745. They had five children, all of whom Rousseau had sent to foundling homes in infancy. Conditions being very poor at orphanages in the 18th century, it is unlikely any of them survived. Late in life Rousseau came to regret his actions and tried to track his children down in the hopes of contacting them or at least knowing their final fates, but had no success. - Jason Music
I like listening to music, Getting air on my snowboard, doing tricks on my sb, playing music (drums, lead vocals), Hanging with friends, swimming, going to the beach, I could go on and on. - Tyler
5 foot somethin and blue eyes brown hair you see the picture to the left dumb asses you should know... i just got screwed by someone so im really pissed and im gettin pissed at this myspace cuz theres so much to fill out! christ oh mighty. - Heather Whittle
Welcome. - Kyle Stephens
my name is kyle stephens i like to skateboard, snowboard, dirtbike, bmx, play football, hockey, and do wat ever is fun to do. - Tyler
Uhh. I'm 14 almost 15 well in like 3 months but i have blue eyes and i dont know how tall probly somewhere round 5 somethin and i have brown hair i live in pinckney. - Ryan Bridgers
Ooooook.... My name is Ryan, I live in Hartland. I guess I don't really have a style or a clique. I hang out with the right people. I'm not into drinking or drugs at all. I'm very understanding, I can overeact at times but Ill come around. I work hard, I'm good at what I do and I enjoy doing it most of the time. I stay very busy, and I don't complain much. Recently I have become more goal oriented, if I want something, I work for it. - Jamie Wiseman
I have a wonderful daughter, Lindy, who is the center of my world! She is 3 going on 12... very independent, head-strong, and a bit stubborn like her Moma. She never ceases to amaze me... I love to just watch her as she grows, learns and experiences so many things for the first time... I often find myself wondering what she's thinking about... wishing I could tap into "her world" just for a little while to experience it as she does. - Jesse
Myspace Countdowns. - Tony Marsh
Probably one of the older MySpace users (age 55 - yeah thats seriously old!) Life time passion with popular music - p2p is great for keeping up to date. I make my living from teaching and learning online but my real passion is for the outdoors and the environment. Check out my photos on. - Tony McBride
hey my name is tony im from detroit michigan. i just moved to howell so i could go to school. i go to legacy wich is in hartland and is an alternative highschool. none of the schools in detroit would take me because i had allready got excpelled from howell high.
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