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Pianta earned his B.S. from the University of Connecticut in 1977 and an M.A. in special education there in 1978, then taught special educat… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=angela_duckworth&rev=1750081549&do=diff Angela Duckworth Biography Angela Duckworth has devoted her professional life to enabling and providing pupils with the tools they need to realize their own potential. After working for a while as a K–12 teacher, Duckworth started her career in management consulting. Later, she turned her attention to psychology, utilizing the scientific method to connect theory and practice in the disciplines of psychology and education. Her scholarly contributions to these two domains have been significant. … text/html 2026-04-20T01:02:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=cai_yuan_pei&rev=1776646937&do=diff Cai Yuanpei (1868–1940) Biography Cai Yuanpei (蔡元培, Thái Nguyên Bồi) was one of the most influential educators and thinkers of modern China, widely credited with transforming Chinese higher education during the turbulent transition from the Qing dynasty to the Republic of China. Born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, Cai received a rigorous classical education in the Confucian tradition, passing the imperial examination at a young age and earning the prestigious jinshi degree, after which he bri… text/html 2026-04-20T01:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=deborah_meier&rev=1776648655&do=diff Deborah Meier (1931-) Biography Deborah Meier is an American educator, author, and school founder who has been a leading voice in U.S. educational reform for more than fifty years and the first K–12 teacher to receive the MacArthur Fellowship. Born on April 6, 1931, in New York City to Joseph and Pearl Willen — both politically active, with Joseph running the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and Pearl volunteering widely and running once for City Council — Meier was raised in a household co… text/html 2026-04-20T02:56:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=edward_de_bono&rev=1776653792&do=diff Edward de Bono (1933–2021) Biography Edward de Bono was a Maltese physician, psychologist, and prolific author whose work over more than five decades made “thinking” a teachable subject in its own right and introduced two of the most widely used vocabularies in twentieth-century cognitive practice: *lateral thinking* and *parallel thinking*. Born in Malta in 1933, de Bono came from a family in which, by his own account, two strands converged: a strong medical orientation from his father, a pro… text/html 2026-04-18T14:52:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=hildegard_von_bingen&rev=1776523941&do=diff Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) Biography Hildegard von Bingen was a Benedictine abbess, polymath, and visionary of the twelfth century whose astonishing body of work — spanning theology, medicine, natural science, music, poetry, art, theater, linguistics, ecology, and architecture — places her two centuries before the Renaissance men typically associated with polymathic achievement. 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His father died when Jerome was twelve, a… text/html 2026-04-18T15:19:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=john_stuart_mill&rev=1776525547&do=diff John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) Biography John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in London, the son of Harriet Barrow and James Mill — himself a philosopher and political theorist who, in close consultation with the founder of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham, raised young John Stuart as an explicit experiment in testing the limits of the human mind. 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He grew up in a household steeped in Jewish intellectual culture and the political debates of the interwar period, and was exposed from childhood to his father's scholarly work on Hebrew grammar — an influence he would later acknowledge as formative for hi… text/html 2026-04-19T08:19:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=plutarch&rev=1776586766&do=diff Plutarch (46 - 120) Biography Plutarch was born in Chaeronea, a small city in Boeotia, Greece, where he would spend most of his life and which he served as a local magistrate and civic leader. He received his philosophical education in Athens under Ammonius, a Platonist who instilled in him the commitment to ethical philosophy and the examined life that would animate his entire literary career. 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