| 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 |