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The name by which he is known in the West is a Latinization of text/html 2026-04-15T08:08:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=elliot_eisner&rev=1776240491&do=diff Elliot Eisner (1933–2014) Biography Elliot Wayne Eisner was an American painter, art educator, and educational theorist whose career at Stanford University made him the foremost advocate for the cognitive, curricular, and methodological importance of the arts in education. Born in Chicago in 1933 to a Jewish American family that saw education as a motivating force for change, Eisner traced his intellectual life to his mother's decision, when he was eight, to enroll him in Saturday art classes … text/html 2026-04-18T19:38:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=mary_wollstonecraft&rev=1776541111&do=diff Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) Biography Mary Wollstonecraft was born on 27 April 1759 in Spitalfields, London, the second of seven children of Edward John Wollstonecraft, a weaver's son turned gentleman farmer who squandered a substantial family inheritance on a succession of failed agricultural ventures and who was given to violent outbursts that his wife and children lived in fear of. The insecurity of Wollstonecraft's childhood — marked by poverty, her mother's submission and decline, and… text/html 2026-04-14T17:06:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=cai_yuan_pei&rev=1776186407&do=diff Cai Yuanpei (1868–1940) Biography Cai Yuanpei (蔡元培) 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 briefly served as an… text/html 2026-04-18T14:45:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=friedrich_froebel&rev=1776523503&do=diff Friedrich Froebel (1782–1852) Biography Friedrich Froebel was a German pedagogue, philosopher of education, and institutional innovator whose creation of kindergarten — both the concept and the name — made him one of the chief architects of modern early childhood education. 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Raised in a family that endowed him with a love of learning and a reverence for the written word, Mann underwent a decisive text/html 2026-04-18T15:07:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=hypatia_of_alexandria&rev=1776524879&do=diff Hypatia of Alexandria (355–415 CE) Biography Hypatia was born in Alexandria, Egypt, probably around 355–375 CE, into the household of Theon — a famed mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher whom the tenth-century Suda Lexicon identifies as the last known teacher and member of the Museum of Alexandria, the great institution that housed the Library of Alexandria and served as the intellectual hub of the ancient Mediterranean world. The Museum was akin to a medieval university in its devotion … text/html 2026-04-18T19:07:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=jane_addams&rev=1776539265&do=diff Jane Addams (1860–1935) Biography Jane Addams was born on 6 September 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois, the daughter of John Huy Addams — a mill owner, state senator, and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln — whose civic example proved a formative influence on her moral imagination. She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881 and briefly attended the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia before ill health and a deepening sense of purposelessness led her to abandon medicine; a transformati… 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. 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He attended an Orthodox Jewish day school in which Talmudic study in the mornings was paired with secular subjects in the afternoons, an experience that cultivated both the habits of close textual analysis and the convictio… 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 2026-04-18T19:48:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=michel_de_montaigne&rev=1776541695&do=diff Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) Biography Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born on 28 February 1533 at the Château de Montaigne in the Périgord region of Aquitaine, France, the son of Pierre Eyquem de Montaigne, a prosperous merchant who had inherited the family estate and elevated himself to the minor nobility, and Antoinette de Louppes, of Spanish-Jewish descent. His early education was arranged with exceptional care by his father, who had absorbed the humanistic values of the Renaissance duri…