http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-05-30T12:36:17+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg 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. Born in 1782 in Thuringia, Germany, Froebel lost his mother at nine months of age, grew up under the care of a Lutheran pastor father, and spent much of his childhood walking through forests and fields that instilled in him… 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. He visited Rome, lectured there, and formed enduring friendships with men of consular rank, earning … text/html 2026-04-18T14:58:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=horace_quintus_horatius_flaccus&rev=1776524296&do=diff Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Biography Quintus Horatius Flaccus was born on 8 December 65 BCE in Venusia (modern Basilicata, southern Italy), the son of a freed slave who worked as an auctioneer and tax collector. His father's modest but fiercely devoted investment in his son's education was extraordinary for the social class: rather than entrust the boy to a local school in Venusia, he carried him to Rome and placed him under the grammaticus Orbilius, whose enthusiasm for the … text/html 2026-04-19T08:40:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=rabindranath_tagore&rev=1776588007&do=diff Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Biography Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May 1861 in Jorasanko, Calcutta, into the Tagore family — one of the most distinguished intellectual and artistic dynasties of nineteenth-century Bengal — at a time when the Indian subcontinent was under British colonial rule and Bengali society was undergoing a profound cultural renaissance. He was the fourteenth child of the philosopher and reformer Debendranath Tagore, and he grew up surrounded by an atmosphere of l… text/html 2026-04-19T08:34:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=siddhartha_gautama&rev=1776587699&do=diff Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha) (624-544 BCE) Biography Siddhartha Gautama — the historical figure who came to be revered as the Buddha, the Awakened One — is believed to have been born approximately 563 BCE in Kapilavatthu, a town in what is today southern Nepal, the son of a raja (king) of the Shakya clan and his principal queen, Mahamaya. 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Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing text/html 2026-04-20T01:01:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=confucius&rev=1776646896&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. 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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 2026-04-18T14:52:21+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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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 2026-04-20T01:58:55+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…