The Educators

All names in this Index are by birth-certificate, which may not be the name by which you know them


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Anton Wilhelm Amo (circa 1703-1759): Ghana'an-born scholar, the first African to receive a doctorate (Wittenberg), and to teach (Halle) at a European university [Africa]

Thomas Arnold
(born June 13 1795, died June 12 1842) with son Matthew on Dec 24; what he did to transform Rugby School, and with it English education (not necessarily for its long-term good, but that’s another matter), here

Françoise d'Aubigné
, also known as Madame (Marquise) de Maintenon: (1635-1719): in prison on Nov 27; Queen of France on the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness, and among the Educators because she founded the first girls' boarding school

John de Balliol
: (born circa 1208; died October 25 1268): key to the transformation of Oxford Yeshiva into Oxford University (click here), through his connection with Fra Roger Bacon

Margaret Beaufort
(born May 31 1443; died June 29 1509): mother of Henry VII, founder of both St. John's and Christ's colleges in Grantabridge, and her name-college, Lady Margaret Hall, in Oxenford.. and a great deal more, but see April 15 and 29, and especially the Mediaeval page of "Woman-Blindness". Buried in the south aisle of Henry VII’s chapel at Westminster Abbey (their bio of her here)

Benjamin Samuel Bloom
: born February 21 1913; compared with Pavlov on his death-date, Sept 13 1999; referenced on Feb 21 and Aug 9; bio and taxonomy here

Andrew Carnegie
(born Nov 25 1835; died August 11 1919): made his money in steel, but here because he used it to fund libraries; and there are also the Carnegie Museum of Art, here; a museum in Pittsburg here; a music venue in New York here; a list of still more Carnegie organisations at the website of his birthplace museum, here; plus the bio here; the ethos of the libraries here; a list of Carnegie libraries in the UK here and more about one particular one here...is that enough?

Prudence Crandall
: (born September 3 1803; died Jan 28 1890): teaching P.L Dunbar on Feb 9; bio here [also on responses to bullying]

Juan Latino
, Afro-Spanish scholar: appointed as Head of Grammar at the Cathedral School of Granada in 1565 [Africa]; Spanish view here, Cambridge view here

Margaret of Anjou
: founding the first women's college on April 15 (but see April 29 as well); much more on the Mediaeval page of Woman-Blindness; with her husband Henry VI, and their son Edward IV, on the Aenglisch list

Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
(born Aug 31 1870; died May 6 1952): her society website here; the 1946 London lectures here; the banishment of the Poetika by macho male here

John Percival
(born September 27 1834; died December 3 1918): educational role-modelling on May 19 and Dec 24: full bio here

Jean William Fritz Piaget
(born on Aug 9 1896; died September 16 1980): referenced on Feb 5 and June 24; but should also be read alongside Isaac Luria on Aug 5 and Bloom’s Taxonomy on Sept 13; UNESCO bio here; cognitive development theory here and here

Henrietta Rowland (Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston Barnett DBE
) (born May 4 1851; died June 10 1936) building Toynbee Hall on June 5; the school named for her here

        Samuel Augustus Barnett (born February 8 1844; died June 17 1913): building Toynbee Hall with, inter alia, his wife Henrietta...


 


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