http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-06-03T17:53:25+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-04-20T07:58:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=dan_rothstein&rev=1776671893&do=diff Dan Rothstein Biography Dan Rothstein is an American educator, community organiser, and researcher whose career has been devoted to a single animating conviction: that the ability to ask one's own questions is the most democratically consequential and most consistently neglected skill that education can cultivate. He earned a doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and on completing his degree travelled to Israel on a Fulbright Scholarship, where he worked in youth and community… text/html 2026-04-20T01:14:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=john_dewey&rev=1776647647&do=diff John Dewey (1859–1952) Biography John Dewey was born on 20 October 1859 in Burlington, Vermont, the third son of Archibald Sprague Dewey, a grocer, and Lucina Artemisia Rich, a pious and intellectually exacting woman whose Calvinist earnestness left a lifelong mark on her son's moral seriousness even as he repudiated its theological foundations. He grew up in a middling New England town whose civic culture of town-hall democracy and Protestant voluntarism shaped the democratic idealism that wo… text/html 2026-04-20T01:26:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=lev_vygotsky&rev=1776648415&do=diff Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) Biography Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was born on 17 November 1896 in Orsha, in the Russian Empire (now Belarus), the second of eight children in a prosperous and intellectually cultivated Jewish family. His father, Semyon Vygotsky, was a bank official, and the family moved to Gomel — a lively provincial city — when Lev was a year old; it was there that he spent his formative years, tutored at home by Solomon Ashpiz, a celebrated private teacher whose Socratic, dialogic m… 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 text/html 2026-04-18T19:48:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=noam_chomsky&rev=1776541736&do=diff Noam Chomsky (1928– ) Biography Avram Noam Chomsky was born on 7 December 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of William (Zev) Chomsky, a distinguished Hebrew scholar and educator who had emigrated from Ukraine, and Elsie Simonofsky. 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 2026-04-20T01:55:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=pham_toan&rev=1776650113&do=diff Phạm Toàn (1932–2019) Biography Phạm Toàn was born on 1 July 1932 in a village in Đông Anh district on the northern outskirts of Hà Nội, into the generation of Vietnamese whose entire intellectual formation was shaped by revolution and war. In 1946, at the age of fourteen, he joined the resistance army following text/html 2026-04-20T07:49:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=tony_wagner&rev=1776671380&do=diff Tony Wagner (1948–) Biography Tony Wagner's path to becoming one of the most influential voices in contemporary American education reform began with rejection of the very institution he would later dedicate his career to transforming. Growing up in the political ferment of the 1960s, he dropped out of high school, returned, then dropped out of college twice — experiences that gave him an early, personal, and unsparing understanding of what it feels like when schooling fails to engage the intel… text/html 2026-04-20T01:58:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=tran_thanh_van&rev=1776650335&do=diff Trần Thanh Vân (1936–) Biography Trần Thanh Vân — known in the French scientific world as Jean Trần Thanh Vân — was born on 4 July 1936 in Đồng Hới, Quảng Bình Province, in the narrow coastal corridor of central Vietnam that has historically been among the most war-exposed regions of the country. At the age of thirteen he left his family to study in Huế, and in 1953, when he was seventeen, he departed Vietnam for France, joining the generation of Vietnamese students whose intellectual formatio… text/html 2026-04-20T07:34:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=barbel_inhelder&rev=1776670450&do=diff Bärbel Inhelder (1913–1997) Biography Bärbel Inhelder was born on 15 April 1913 in St. Gallen, Switzerland, into a family of intellectual and medical distinction — her father was a physician — and received a rigorous secondary education that prepared her for entry into the University of Geneva at a moment when women in Swiss academia were still a marked minority. She enrolled at the Institut Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Geneva's internationally renowned centre for child psychology and education, in … 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 2026-04-20T01:33:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=diane_ravitch&rev=1776648823&do=diff Diane Ravitch (b. 1938) Biography Diane Silvers Ravitch is an American historian of education, public intellectual, and former federal education official whose work has both chronicled and altered the course of American schooling for nearly half a century. Born on July 1, 1938, in Houston, Texas, the third of eight children of Anna and Walter Silvers — small-business owners in the city's Heights neighborhood — Ravitch attended the Houston public schools and graduated as one of four valedictori… 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 2026-04-19T08:30:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=gene_glass&rev=1776587421&do=diff Gene Glass (1940-) Biography Gene V Glass is an educational statistician, researcher, and policy critic whose career has been defined by a series of methodological innovations and sustained polemical engagements with the political economy of American education. He transferred to the University of Nebraska in 1959 and came under the early influence of Robert Stake, whose commitment to naturalistic and evaluative approaches to educational research would shape Glass's own eventual critique of nar… 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 2026-04-18T19:49:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=howard_zinn&rev=1776541764&do=diff Howard Zinn (1922–2010) Biography Howard Zinn was born on 24 August 1922 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Eddie Zinn, an Austrian Jewish immigrant who worked as a waiter and factory hand, and Jenny Zinn. He grew up in poverty in the Brooklyn and the Bronx tenements of the interwar years, a childhood shaped by the Great Depression, trade-union culture, and the visceral experience of economic precariousness. He left school at seventeen to work in a shipyard and was later apprenticed as a lathe … text/html 2026-04-18T19:08:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=johann_friedrich_herbart&rev=1776539287&do=diff Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841) Biography Johann Friedrich Herbart was born on 4 May 1776 in Oldenburg, in what is now north-western Germany, the son of a jurist and local government official. He studied philosophy under Johann Gottlieb Fichte at the University of Jena, where he developed his early dissatisfaction with Fichte's idealism — a dissatisfaction that would shape his lifelong commitment to grounding philosophy, and especially pedagogy, in observable reality rather than speculati… text/html 2026-04-18T19:08:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=john_calvin&rev=1776539310&do=diff John Calvin (1509–1564) Biography Jean Calvin — known in the English-speaking world as John Calvin — was born on 10 July 1509 in Noyon, Picardy, then part of the Kingdom of France, the son of Gérard Cauvin, a notary and ecclesiastical administrator. His father initially directed him toward a clerical career, and Calvin received his early humanist education at the Collège de la Marche and the Collège de Montaigu in Paris before being redirected to law, which he studied at Orléans and Bourges un… text/html 2026-04-18T19:09:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=john_locke&rev=1776539353&do=diff John Locke (1632–1704) Biography John Locke was born on 29 August 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, England, the son of a country attorney who had served as a cavalry captain in the Parliamentary forces during the Civil War — a background that instilled in the young Locke both a Puritan seriousness of purpose and a practical orientation toward the affairs of the world. He was educated at Westminster School, then one of the most demanding institutions in England, before entering Christ Church, Oxford… text/html 2026-04-18T19:10:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=lawrence_arthur_cremin&rev=1776539409&do=diff Lawrence A. Cremin (1925–1990) Biography Lawrence Arthur Cremin was born on 31 October 1925 in New York City, the son of Arthur T. Cremin and Theresa Borowick Cremin, who together founded the New York Schools of Music — an institution in which the young Lawrence worked in a variety of capacities, distributing advertisements, selling instruments, conducting the orchestra, and entertaining audiences with comic routines when performances were delayed. This immersion in an educational enterprise s… text/html 2026-04-18T19:38:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=martin_luther&rev=1776541085&do=diff Martin Luther (1483–1546) Biography Martin Luther was born on 10 November 1483 in Eisleben, in the County of Mansfeld in the Holy Roman Empire, the second of eight children born to Hans and Margarethe Luther. His father, a copper miner who rose to lease several foundries, was determined that Martin should study law, and enrolled him first at the Latin school in Mansfeld, then at schools in Magdeburg and Eisenach, and finally at the University of Erfurt, where Luther completed a master of arts … text/html 2026-04-18T14:30:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=nikolai_frederik_severin_grundtvig&rev=1776522609&do=diff Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783–1872) Biography Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig — historian, pastor, poet, politician, educational philosopher, and what many Danes call “the spiritual father of the nation” — was born on September 8, 1783, in Udby, in southern Zealand, to a Lutheran minister father and a mother from a long line of clergymen. At the age of nine he was sent to live and study with a village pastor in Jutland, where he developed an enduring appreciation of rural life; a… text/html 2026-04-18T19:52:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=patrick_wolf&rev=1776541951&do=diff Patrick Wolf (1965– ) Biography Patrick John Wolf was born in 1965 and completed his undergraduate studies in political science and philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in 1987 before pursuing doctoral work at Harvard University under the direction of Paul E. Peterson, one of the leading scholars of the political economy of education. His dissertation, completed in 1995, examined bureaucratic effectiveness in United States federal agencies through a case meta-analysis — a focus on govern… text/html 2026-04-19T08:24:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=richard_elmore&rev=1776587083&do=diff Richard Elmore (1945–2021) Biography Richard Elmore was one of the most consequential scholars of educational leadership and school improvement of his generation, whose career combined serious academic inquiry with deep, sustained engagement in the practical work of schools. He served as the Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1990 until his death on 9 February 2021, and in that role he shaped the thinking of hundreds of aspiring ed… text/html 2026-04-15T07:53:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=robert_c._pianta&rev=1776239582&do=diff Robert C. Pianta (1955-) Biography Robert C. Pianta is an American developmental psychologist, teacher educator, and former Dean of the University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development whose work over nearly five decades has shown that the quality of interactions between teachers and children is the decisive lever of educational quality. 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 2026-04-19T08:29:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=st._augustine&rev=1776587372&do=diff St. Augustine (354-430) Biography Aurelius Augustinus — known to posterity as Saint Augustine of Hippo — was born in 354 CE in Thagaste, a small town in Roman North Africa in the region that is today Algeria. His mother, Monica, was a devout Christian whose persistent faith would eventually prove decisive in his own religious conversion; his father, Patricius, was a pagan Roman official of modest means who nonetheless ensured that his intellectually gifted son received a thorough classical edu… text/html 2026-04-19T08:35:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=thomas_aquinas&rev=1776587753&do=diff Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Biography Thomas Aquinas was born into a minor Italian noble family at the castle of Roccasecca near Naples. His formal education began at the age of five when he was sent as an oblate to the prestigious Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino — the epicentre of medieval European learning and a great repository of ancient texts — where he received a thorough grounding in the classical liberal arts curriculum: the Trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic, and the Quadri… text/html 2026-04-19T08:36:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=thomas_elyot&rev=1776587800&do=diff Thomas Elyot (1490–1546) Biography Sir Thomas Elyot was born approximately three years after the conclusion of the Wars of the Roses, the decades-long dynastic conflicts that had convulsed England, into a family whose fortunes had been built on legal and political service under the new Tudor monarchy. His father, Richard Elyot, was a successful lawyer and judge, and Thomas grew up in close proximity to the machinery of Tudor governance — an upbringing that would give his educational writings t…