http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-15T00:35:18+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg 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 2025-06-20T00:53:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=carol_dweck&rev=1750380822&do=diff Carol Dweck Biography Carol Dweck is a renowned educational psychologist whose work has significantly advanced understanding of motivation, intelligence, and personality. She pursued her undergraduate degree in psychology at Barnard College and earned her graduate studies at Yale University, where she developed her foundational research in cognitive psychology and learning theory. Mentored by notable scholars such as Dr. Allan Wagner and Dr. Robert Rescorla, she deepened her expertise in cogni… 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 2025-07-31T23:47:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=cyril_lodowic_burt&rev=1754005622&do=diff Cyril Lodowic Burt (Sir) (1883-1971) Biography Cyril L. Burt was born in 1883 in Snitterfield, Warwickshire, England, and grew up in a family with strong academic roots, as his father was a family physician. He excelled academically during his school years, earning scholarships to prestigious institutions like Christ’s Hospital and Jesus College, Oxford. Originally intending to pursue medicine like his father, Burt eventually shifted his focus toward psychology, driven by an interest in intell…