- 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. - Christa McAuliffe
Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, better known simply as Christa McAuliffe, and prior to her marriage, Christa Corrigan, was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who was selected from among more than 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher in space. She died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. - Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community. Washington was born into slavery to a white father and a black slave mother on a rural farm in south-central Virginia; the slaves were freed in 1865 by the thirteenth amendment. He attended Hampton University and Wayland Seminary. - John Adams
John Adams (September 18, 1772-April 24, 1863) was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools. He was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, 1772 to John Adams and Mary Parker Adams. He graduated from Yale University in 1795. In 1798, he married Elizabeth Ripley, with whom he had ten children. He taught at the Plainfield, New Jersey Academy from 1800-1803, when he took the post as principal of Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut. - John Brown
John Brown was the third president of the University of Georgia. He served in that capacity from 1811 until his resignation in 1816. Brown was born on June 15, 1763 in County Antrim, Ireland and died on December 11, 1842 in Fort Gaines, Georgia. - 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. - John Smith
John Smith (1618-52) was an English educator, born at Achurch, Northamptonshire. He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1636, took his B.A. in 1640 and his M.A. in 1644, at which time he was chosen fellow of Queens' College. His health seems to have been precarious from the first. His labors were princepally confined to his office as teacher, for which he had remarkable qualifications. His preaching was with a rare degree of eloquence, … - Karl Marx
Karl Marx (November 12 1897, Munich - May 8 1985, Stuttgart) was a German composer, conductor, and educator. Karl Marx first studied natural sciences, but, after having met Carl Orff, decided to make music his career, and studied musical composition with Orff, Siegmund von Hausegger, and Anton Beer-Waldbrunn among others. In 1928 he became choir director of the Munich Bach Society, and in 1929 was appointed professor for compositional technique at the Akademie der Tonkunst, … - Dale Carnegie
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (originally Carnegey) (November 24 1888 - November 1 1955) was an American writer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. Born in poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People," first published in 1936, a massive bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln, … - Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch 's June 7 Gadfly article took the New York City Department of Education to task for hyping the most recent reading scores for students in More... - David Smith
Sir David Smith was the Principal of Edinburgh University from 1987 to 1994. - Will Power
Will Power is an award-winning American actor, rapper, playwright, and educator. - Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is well-known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village". - Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten (born 1957) is an American labor leader and educator and is the current president of the United Federation of Teachers. - Charlotte Mason
Charlotte Mason (January 1, 1842 - January 16, 1923) was a British educator who invested her life in improving the quality of children's education. Her ideas led to one of the primary methods of homeschooling. - Michelle Rhee
Michelle Rhee is the founder and President of The New Teacher Project, a non-profit organization which partners with high-needs school districts to recruit and train new teachers. She founded the program in 1997, and it has since expanded to forty programs in twenty states, having recruited more than 10,000 teachers. On June 12th, 2007, Washington, DC mayor Adrian Fenty announced that he had chosen her to replace Superintendent of DC Public Schools, … - 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". - Bell Hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins (born on September 25, 1952), better known as bell hooks is an African-American intellectual, feminist, and social activist. Hooks focuses on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She has published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and participated in various public lectures. - Chester E. Finn Jr.
Chester Finn is an unpaid informal adviser and fellow at the Hudson Institute. "I don't describe myself as an adviser; I describe myself as an old friend. I talk to him [Lamar Alexander] from time to time," he said in an interview. Finn was assistant secretary of education in the 1980s. He is an advocate of abolishing the Department of Education and was part of the design team for the Edison Project, a pay-to-learn system of schools set up by Christopher Whittle . - Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series, which currently has over 115 titles and 100 million copies in print in over 47 languages. According to USA Today, Canfield and his writing partner, Mark Victor Hansen, were the top-selling authors in the United States in 1997. - John Hope
John Hope (June 2, 1868 - February 20, 1936), born in Augusta, Georgia, was an African-American educator and political activist. He was the son of a white father, who was a farmer, and a black mother. Hope graduated from Worcester Academy in 1890, then taught at Brown University. After he graduated from Brown in 1894 he taught at Roger Williams University. In 1897 he married Lugenia Burns Hope, who would become a well-known social reformer. - Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin, PhD, (born August 29, 1947) is an associate professor at Colorado State University and famous and successful adult with high-functioning autism. Grandin is also a successful professional designer of humane livestock facilities. - James Smith
James Smith was the Principal of Edinburgh University from 1732 to 1736. He was also a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. - Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt was a German Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular". She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world." - Frank Brogan
Frank T. Brogan (born September 6, 1953 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is the President of Florida Atlantic University and a former Lieutenant Governor of Florida. Brogan is also a Republican politician, and a longtime educator who served eight years in statewide office. - 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. - Fred Rogers
Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers was an American educator, minister, songwriter and television host. Rogers was the host of the internationally acclaimed children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", in production from 1968 to 2001. As Mister Rogers, he became an iconic presence to millions of viewers. Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister. - Tristan Taormino
Tristan Taormino (born May 9, 1971) is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, pornographic film director (and occasional actress) and self-styled "anal sexpert". She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993. Tristan Taormino is the niece of author Thomas Pynchon. - Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam (Arabic: يوسف إسلام, who was known as Cat Stevens from 1966 to 1978, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, educator, philanthropist and prominent convert to Islam. Under the name "Cat Stevens," he has sold over 60 million albums around the world since the late 1960s. - Mary Lyon
Mary Mason Lyon (28 February 1797 - 5 March 1849) was the founder of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, (now Mount Holyoke College), Massachusetts and a pioneer in women's education in America. She served as its first president (referred to at that time as "principal"). - W. E. B. du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced) (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, … - Benjamin Rush
Dr. Benjamin Rush (December 24 1745 - April 19 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, and humanitarian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Rush was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended the Continental Congress. Later in life, he became a professor of medical theory and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania. - Erin Gruwell
Erin Gruwell (b. 15 August 1969) is an American teacher. The 2007 film "Freedom Writers" was based on her story. - Jamey Aebersold
Jamey Aebersold (born July 21, 1939) is an American jazz saxophonist and music educator. His "Play-A-Long" series of instructional book and CD collections, the first of which was released in 1967, are an internationally renowned resource for jazz education. As of 2006 more than 120 of these collections have been published by Aebersold, who currently teaches musical improvisation at the University of Louisville. He is also an adept pianist, bassist, and banjoist. - 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. - 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. - Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis (born 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American contemporary non-fiction author. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker", "The New New Thing," "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" and "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game". After graduating from the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, he received an art history degree from Princeton University and a masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics. - David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 - September 19, 1931) was a leading ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University. Jordan was also an early leader in the american Eugenics movement. - Steve Brown
Steve Brown (born in Freeport, Long Island, 1942) is a jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, and educator. He is the Director of Jazz Studies at Ithaca College, a position he has held for over 30 years. He is an active performer, composer, and arranger, often appearing with his group, "The Steve Brown Quartet." Brown has played with such musicians as Jimmy Smith, Paquito D'Rivera, Chuck Mangione, Phil Woods, and Ray Charles. - Dr. John Phillips
Dr. John Phillips (1719 - 1795) and his wife, Elizabeth Phillips, founded the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1781. His nephew, Samuel Phillips, Jr., founded the nearby Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1778. These two schools, longtime rivals in interscholastic sports as Harvard is to Yale, are among the oldest and most prestigious preparatory schools in the United States.
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