- 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. - Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori (August 31, 1870 - May 6, 1952) was an Italian physician, educator, philosopher, humanitarian and devout Catholic; she is best known for her philosophy and method of education of children from birth to adolescence. Her educational method is in use today in a number of public as well as private schools throughout the world. - 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. - 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. - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, was a philosopher and statesman. One of the foremost scholars of comparative religion and philosophy in his day, he built a bridge between Eastern and Western thought showing each to be comprehensible within the terms of the other. He introduced Western idealism into Indian philosophy and was the first scholar of importance to provide a comprehensive exegesis of India's religious and philosophical literature to English speaking peoples. - Horace Mann
Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 - August 2, 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne, since their wives were sisters. - Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner, born on July 11, 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a psychologist who is based at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences. In 1981, he was awarded a MacArthur Prize Fellowship. - Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 - September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children and his theory of cognitive development. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget is also "the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing" - Comenius
John Amos Comenius (latinized: "Iohannes Amos Comenius") (March 28, 1592 - November 15, 1670) was a Czech teacher, scientist, educator, and writer. He was a Unity of the Brethren/Moravian Protestant bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal education, a concept eventually set forth in his book "Didactica Magna". Comenius became known as the "teacher of nations". - 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. - 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." - Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn is an American lecturer and author in the fields of education, psychology and parenting, residing in Belmont, Massachusetts. He is an outspoken critic of American work place management, certain aspects of public education and many commonly accepted parenting techniques. There are two ways of viewing his books. One is to view them from the aforementioned perspective of work, school, and home. - K. M. Munshi
Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (December 30, 1887 - February 8, 1971) was an Indian freedom fighter from the state of Gujarat. A lawyer by profession, he then turned to literature and politics. Munshi was born on 30 December, 1887 in the town of Bharuch in Gujarat. He got his education in Vadodara, where he excelled in academics. One of his teachers at the then Baroda College was Sri Aurobindo. Munshi later practised in Bombay High Court. - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi
Prof. Dr. Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi (1903-1981) was a noted litterateur, historian, educationist and scholar of Pakistan as well as a prolific writer. He is widely acclaimed and regarded as the founding member of Muqtadra Qaumi Zaban and the first education minister of Pakistan. He is also credited for editing a four-volume series on history of Pakistan - Kurt Hahn
Kurt Martin Hahn (5 June, 1886 - 14 December, 1974) was a German educator responsible for the creation of Outward Bound. - 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. - Robert Blackburn
Robert Blackburn (26 September 1927 - 16 July 1990) was an Irish educationalist. He was an early pioneer of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) and was instrumental in establishing the first United World College (UWC) in the early 1960s. - Joseph Rowntree
Joseph Rowntree was an educationist and shopkeeper. Rowntree was born at Scarborough, Yorkshire, the son of the Quakers John Rowntree (1757 - 1827) and his wife, Elizabeth Lotherington (1764 - 1835). In 1822, he started a grocery shop in York. The business was successful. On 3 May 1832 he married Sarah Stephenson (1807–1888). They had five children, of whom one was the chocolate magnate Joseph Rowntree. He made an impact on both the education of Quaker children, … - Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman was an American poet, writer, and public intellectual. He described his politics as anarchist, his loves as bisexual, and his profession as that of "man of letters". Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of "Growing up Absurd" and for having been, during the 1960s, an activist on the pacifist Left and an inspiration to the counterculture of that era. He is less remembered as a cofounder of Gestalt Therapy in the 1940s and 50s. - Ted Wragg
Edward Conrad Wragg (June 26, 1938 - November 10, 2005) was a British educationalist and academic known for his advocacy of the cause of education and opposition to political interference in the field. He was Professor of Education at Exeter University from 1978 to 2003 and a regular columnist in the Times Educational Supplement and The Guardian. In the UK, the Ted Wragg Teaching Award for Lifetime Achievement honours his memory, … - Benjamin Bloom
Benjamin Bloom (21 February, 1913 - September 13, 1999) was an American educational psychologist who made significant contributions to the classification of educational objectives and the theory of mastery learning. - Alan Smithers
Professor Alan Smithers, the distinguished educationist, is best known for his distinctive style of research, which leads to him often being called upon to comment on the issues of the day. His early experience in science led him to the view that educational researchers are wrong in aping the scientific paradigm. - Anne Sullivan
Anne Sullivan, Annie Sullivan, or Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy, (April 14, 1866 - October 20, 1936) was a teacher best known as the tutor of Helen Keller. - Brajendra Nath Seal
Sir Dr. Brajendra Nath Seal (1864-1938) was a renowned Bengali Indian humanist philosopher. He was one of the greatest original thinkers of the Brahmo Samaj and did work in comparative religion and on the philosophy of science. He systematized the humanism of the Brahmo philosophical thought. In his work, he underscored the tectonic shift in Brahmo theology in the late eighteenth century from liberal theism to secular humanism. - Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 - June 28, 2001) was an American Aristotelian philosopher and author. He was born in New York City, the son of an immigrant jewelry salesman. He dropped out of school at 14 years of age and went to work as a secretary and copy boy at the "New York Sun", hoping to become a journalist. After a year, he took night classes at Columbia University to improve his writing. - Patrick Geddes
Sir Patrick Geddes (1854 - 1932) was Scottish biologist and botanist, known also as an innovative thinker in the fields of urban planning and education. He was responsible for introducing the concept of "region" to architecture and planning and is also known to have coined the term conurbation. He was born in Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on October 2, 1854 and died in Montpellier, France on April 17, 1932. He was knighted in 1932 shortly before his death. - Peter McLaren
Peter McLaren (b. August 2, 1948) is internationally recognized as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy worldwide. He has developed a reputation for his uncompromising political analysis influenced by a Marxist humanist philosophy and a unique literary style of expression. McLaren is currently Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. - Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Need Of Al Mustafa Trust Since the 19th century, there have been two educational streams parallel to each other yet almost in conflict. They were first started by Sir Syed at Aligarh and by Maulana Qasim Nanotvi at Deoband. The Muslim University at Aligarh imparted Western education (of course, in a Muslim environment) to produce administrators, scientists, educationists, engineers, doctors, economists etc. these graduates joined the then British Administration in India, … - Seymour Papert
Seymour Papert (born March 1, 1928 Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language. - Joseph Lancaster
Joseph Lancaster (25 November 1778 - 23 October 1838) was an English Quaker, and public education innovator. Lancaster was born the son of a shopkeeper in Southwark, south London. In 1798, he founded a free elementary school in Borough Road, Southwark, using a variant of the monitorial system. His ideas though were not original, as Dr. Andrew Bell had been using a very similar system in Madras referred to as the "Madras System of Education". - Francis James Child
Francis James Child (February 1, 1825-September 11, 1896), was an American scholar and educationist, and collector of what came to be known as the Child Ballads. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he attended Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard in 1846, topping his class in all subjects. He was tutor in mathematics in 1846-1848; and in 1848 was transferred to a tutorship in history, political economy and English literature. - Jameel Jalibi
Prof. Dr. Jameel Jalibi Ph.D., D.Litt, is a noted linguist, critic, writer, researcher, educationist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics from Pakistan. He assumed the office of University of Karachi Vice-Chancellor and Professor & Chairman of the Department of Urdu, University of Karachi in 1980s. - Anant Pai
Anant Pai (born 1937) is a renowned educationist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the "Amar Chitra Katha" series, which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters, and "Tinkle", a children's anthology. - William Allen
William Allen FRS, FLS (August 29, 1770 - September 30, 1843) was an English Quaker, scientist and philanthropist who opposed slavery and engaged in schemes of social and penal improvement in early nineteenth century England. - Cyril Jackson
Sir Cyril Jackson (February 6 1863 - September 3 1924) was a British educationist, important in the development of education in Western Australia. Jackon, eldest son of L. M. Jackson, was born in England. Educated at the Charterhouse and New College, Oxford, he graduated in 1885 with honours in classics. After leaving Oxford he took up social work at Toynbee Hall for about 10 years from 1885, and was central secretary of the children's holiday fund. - Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (September 14, 1849 - February 27, 1936) was a Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research pertaining to the digestive system. Pavlov is widely known for first describing the phenomenon now known as classical conditioning in his experiments with dogs. - Lev Vygotsky
Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (November 17 (November 5 Old Style), 1896 – June 11, 1934) was a Soviet developmental psychologist and the founder of the Cultural-historical psychology. - H.S.S. Lawrence
Harris Sam Sahayam Lawrence (b. July 28 1923) is an Indian educationalist born in Nagercoil, Tamilnadu. He is the eldest of five children born to his parents, Sam and Arulammal Harris. He hails from Santhapuram, Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu. His father named him Lawrence after John Lawrence and Henry Lawrence, two brothers one of whom was the Governor General. As Special Officer for restructuring Educational Pattern in Tamilnadu and as Director of School Education, … - Jagdish Gandhi
Jagdish Gandhi is a Lucknow-based educationist and thinker who is the founder chairman of City Montessori School. The school has 20 branches in Lucknow with over 30,000 enrolled students, which has earned it a mention in the Guiness Book of World Records. - 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.
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