http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-08-26T20:59:47+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-04-20T07:53:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=howard_gardner&rev=1776671608&do=diff Howard Gardner (1943–) Biography Howard Earl Gardner was born on 11 July 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Ralph Gardner and Hilde Weilheimer, Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi Germany in 1938 after Kristallnacht, leaving behind a prosperous family business and a comfortable bourgeois life — an origin that gave their son an early and intimate acquaintance with the fragility of civilised values and the importance of moral courage that would run, decades later, through his work on ethic… text/html 2026-04-20T01:41:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=ho_chi_minh&rev=1776649282&do=diff Hồ Chí Minh (1890–1969) Biography Hồ Chí Minh was born Nguyễn Sinh Cung on 19 May 1890 in Kim Liên village, Nam Đàn district, Nghệ An province — the same landscape of Confucian scholarship and anti-colonial resistance that had produced text/html 2025-08-08T07:18:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=david_kolb&rev=1754637532&do=diff David Kolb (1939-) Biography David Allen Kolb was born on December 12, 1939, in Moline, Illinois, in what he described as a “small midwestern farm town.” Partly due to the influence of his mother, Kolb developed an interest in learning and ideas from an early age, standing out among his peers who did not seem very interested in education at the time. His first encounter with experiential learning occurred in the 6th grade when his teacher organized a United Nations forum simulation where stude… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=anna_julia_haywood_cooper&rev=1750081549&do=diff Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964) Biography Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was a prominent African American educator, feminist, and social activist. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to an enslaved mother, she faced early hardships but was encouraged by her mother to pursue education. Cooper dedicated her life to advancing educational opportunities for Black women and girls, emphasizing the importance of literacy and intellectual progress. 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