http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-15T22:22:59+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-04-14T17:11:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=celestina_cordero_molina&rev=1776186690&do=diff Celestina Cordero y Molina (1787-1862) Biography Celestina Cordero y Molina was an Afroboricua educator who opened the first school for girls in Puerto Rico and is remembered as a pioneer of racial equity, labor rights, and gender justice in Spanish colonial education. Born in San Juan in 1787, she lived her entire life as a liberta — a free Black woman — at a time when Spanish rule in Puerto Rico rested on an economy of chattel slavery that would not be formally abolished until 1873. Her pare… text/html 2026-04-14T22:42:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=confucius&rev=1776206549&do=diff Confucius (孔子) (551–479 BCE) Biography Confucius (孔子), whose personal name was Kong Qiu (孔丘) and courtesy name Zhong-ni (仲尼), is the towering figure of Chinese educational thought and has been honored for more than two thousand years as the first great teacher in Chinese history. The name by which he is known in the West is a Latinization of text/html 2026-04-15T07:57:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=edward_de_bono&rev=1776239851&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 2026-04-15T08:17:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=etienne_wenger&rev=1776241046&do=diff Etienne Wenger (1952-) Biography Etienne Wenger is a Swiss-born educational theorist and organizational consultant whose development of the “communities of practice” concept has become one of the most widely adopted frameworks for understanding adult, professional, and situated learning across education, business, and public policy. Growing up in Switzerland, where the distant Alps fostered a sense of wonder and a desire to travel, Wenger began his career as a French teacher abroad before shif… text/html 2026-04-14T17:14:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=marcus_tullius_cicero&rev=1776186865&do=diff Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE) Biography Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman lawyer, statesman, orator, and philosopher whose writings on rhetoric, law, and civic life have exerted a longer continuous influence on Western education than those of almost any other ancient figure. Born in 106 BCE in Arpinum, Italy, to a wealthy but politically obscure family, Cicero was what the Romans called a novus homo — a