http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-06-03T18:38:23+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-04-20T03:01:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=eugenio_maria_de_hostos_y_de_bonilla&rev=1776654069&do=diff Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla (1839–1903) Biography Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla was a nineteenth-century Puerto Rican philosopher, sociologist, educator, and pan-Caribbean activist whose legacy continues to inform educational practice, policy, and ontology across Latíno Ameríca and beyond. Born on January 11, 1839, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico — then under Spanish colonial rule — de Hostos was sent at ages 12–13 to Spain for schooling, attending the Institute of Secondary Education… text/html 2026-04-20T01:28:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=jean_piaget&rev=1776648488&do=diff Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Biography Jean Piaget was born on 9 August 1896 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the first child of Arthur Piaget — a medievalist historian who modelled rigorous scholarly exactitude — and Rebecca Jackson, whose periodic psychological instability Piaget later credited with turning his attention toward the study of the mind. He was a prodigious child: at age ten he published his first scientific paper, a brief note on an albino sparrow he had observed in a Neuchâtel park, in a… text/html 2026-04-18T14:26:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=georg_wilhelm_friedrich_hegel&rev=1776522372&do=diff Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) Biography Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher of the idealist tradition whose systematic thinking — encompassing logic, metaphysics, the philosophy of history, aesthetics, and ethics — made him one of the most influential and contested thinkers of the nineteenth century. Born in 1770 in Stuttgart in the Duchy of Württemberg, Hegel's mother was well educated and taught him Latin from an early age; his love of reading was further ignit… 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. The education was extraordinary in its rigour and precocity: before the age of ten, Mill was adept in Greek and Latin and proficient in a range of d… text/html 2026-04-15T08:29:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=francis_bacon&rev=1776241789&do=diff Francis Bacon (1561–1626) Biography Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Albans, was an English philosopher, statesman, lawyer, and essayist whose Great Instauration (1620) and Novum Organum (1620) laid the conceptual foundations of the modern scientific method and made him, in the phrase of his biographers, a text/html 2026-04-18T15:10:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=immanuel_kant&rev=1776525025&do=diff Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) Biography Immanuel Kant was born on 22 April 1724 in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) to Johann Georg and Anna Regina Kant, a devoutly pietist family whose faith would leave a permanent imprint on his moral philosophy. 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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 2026-04-18T19:56:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=pauline_lipman&rev=1776542191&do=diff Pauline Lipman (1944-) Biography Pauline Lipman's formation as an educational thinker began not in the academy but in the streets and workplaces of late-twentieth-century American political life. After completing a bachelor's degree in English, she spent approximately fifteen years as a labor and community activist, teacher, and participant in communist political movements during the Reagan era, an immersion she regarded not as a prelude to academic work but as its essential foundation. It was… 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 2026-04-19T08:18:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=pierre_bourdieu&rev=1776586695&do=diff Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) Biography Pierre Bourdieu was born in Denguin, a small village in the Béarn region of southwest France, the son of a postal worker and the grandson of a sharecropper. He was the first member of his family to complete secondary school, and his trajectory through the French educational system — from a provincial lycée to the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris — gave him a uniquely ambivalent vantage point on an institution that simultaneously opened and for… 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 2026-04-20T07:58:13+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 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 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 2026-04-18T19:49:24+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. 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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 2026-04-20T01:26:55+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 2026-04-20T07:34:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=nguyen_phuoc_vinh_bang&rev=1776670468&do=diff Nguyễn Phước Vĩnh Bang (1922–2008) Biography Nguyễn Phước Vĩnh Bang — known internationally as Vinh-Bang — was born in 1922 in Vietnam, then part of French Indochina, and arrived in Geneva in 1948, where he would spend the rest of his professional life as one of the most trusted and productive members of text/html 2026-04-19T08:19:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=richard_stanley_peters&rev=1776586797&do=diff Richard Stanley Peters (1919–2011) Biography Richard Stanley Peters was born in Mussoorie, India, on 31 October 1919, the son of a British colonial administrator, and returned to England for his schooling. He read Classics and Philosophy at Queen's College Oxford, interrupted his studies to serve in a non-combatant capacity during the Second World War — a decision that reflected his Quaker commitments — and completed a PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London, in 1949. He taught in Birkbe… text/html 2026-04-19T08:27:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=rudolph_steiner&rev=1776587256&do=diff Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) Biography Rudolf Steiner was born in Kraljevec, then part of the Austrian Empire, the son of a railway station master who moved his family frequently along the alpine rail lines of Lower Austria and Styria. Growing up amid the mountain landscapes of the eastern Alps, Steiner showed an early and precocious aptitude for mathematics and the natural sciences, qualities that earned him a scholarship to the Vienna Polytechnic Institute (now the Technical University of Vien… 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… text/html 2026-04-19T08:37:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=thucydides&rev=1776587825&do=diff Thucydides (460 – 400 BCE) Biography Thucydides was born in Athens around 460 BCE into a wealthy aristocratic family with connections to Thrace, and he received the classical Athenian education that divided intellectual formation into paideia mousike