| Educational Thinker | Birth Yr | Death Yr |
| Addams, Jane | 1860 | 1935 |
| Adler, Mortimer | 1902 | 2001 |
| Aquinas, Thomas | 1225 | 1274 |
| Aristotle | -384 | -322 |
| Augustine | 358 | 430 |
| Bagley, William Chandler | 1874 | 1946 |
| Bandura, Albert | 1925 |
| Beecher, Catharine | 1800 | 1878 |
| Bestor, Arthur | 1908 | 1994 |
| Bethune, Mary McLeod | 1875 | 1955 |
| Bruner, Jerome | 1915 |
| Calvin, John | 1509 | 1564 |
| Comenius, Johann Amos | 1592 | 1670 |
| Confucius | -551 | -479 |
| Counts, George S. | 1889 | 1974 |
| Dewey, John | 1859 | 1952 |
| Du Bois, W. E. B. | 1868 | 1963 |
| Eastman, Charles & Elaine | 1858 | 1939 |
| Eliot, Charles W. (Committee of Ten) | 1834 | 1926 |
| Elkind, David | 1931 |
| Erasmus, Desiderius | 1466 | 1536 |
| Erikson, Erik | 1902 | 1994 |
| Franklin, Benjamin | 1706 | 1790 |
| Freire, Paulo | 1921 | 1997 |
| Froebel, Friedrich | 1782 | 1852 |
| Gallaudet, Thomas | 1787 | 1851 |
| Gandhi, Mohandas | 1869 | 1948 |
| Gardner, Howard | 1943 |
| Giroux, Henry | 1943 |
| Herbart, Johann | 1776 | 1841 |
| Hirsch, E. D., Jr. | 1928 |
| Holt, John | 1923 | 1985 |
| Hutchins, Robert M. | 1899 | 1977 |
| Illich, Ivan | 1926 | 2002 |
| Jefferson, Thomas | 1743 | 1826 |
| Kohlberg, Lawrence | 1927 | 1987 |
| Kohn, Alfie | 1957 |
| Kozol, Jonathan | 1936 |
| Locke, John | 1632 | 1704 |
| Luther, Martin | 1483 | 1546 |
| Mann, Horace | 1796 | 1859 |
| Maslow, Abraham | 1908 | 1970 |
| McGuffey, William | 1800 | 1873 |
| McLaren, Peter | 1948 |
| Mill, John Stuart | 1806 | 1873 |
| Montessori, Maria | 1870 | 1952 |
| Neill, A. S. | 1883 | 1973 |
| Owen, Robert | 1771 | 1858 |
| Parker, Colonel Francis Wayland | 1837 | 1902 |
| Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich | 1746 | 1827 |
| Piaget, Jean | 1896 | 1980 |
| Pizan, Christine de | 1364 | 1430 |
| Plato | -428 | -348 |
| Quintilian | -35 | 100 |
| Rickover, Hyman | 1900 | 1986 |
| Rogers, Carl R. | 1902 | 1987 |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | 1712 | 1778 |
| Rugg, Harold | 1886 | 1960 |
| Seton, Elizabeth | 1774 | 1821 |
| Skinner, B. F. | 1904 | 1990 |
| Socrates | -470 | -399 |
| Spencer, Herbert | 1820 | 1903 |
| Thorndike, Edward L. | 1874 | 1949 |
| Tyler, Ralph | 1902 | 1994 |
| Vygotsky, Lev | 1896 | 1934 |
| Washington, Booker T. | 1856 | 1915 |
| Webster, Noah | 1758 | 1843 |
| Whitehead, Alfred North | 1861 | 1947 |
| Willard, Emma | 1787 | 1870 |
| Wollstonecraft, Mary | 1759 | 1797 |
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