http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-05-06T16:09:55+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg 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. 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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. 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His father, a Confucian teacher of modest means who had declined to serve the colonial administration, instilled in his son an early mastery of the classical canon and a deep convicti… 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. 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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 2026-04-20T01:14:07+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. 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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 2026-04-18T19:22:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=louis_braille&rev=1776540131&do=diff Louis Braille (1809–1852) Biography Louis Braille was born on 4 January 1809 in Coupvray, a small village in the Seine-et-Marne region of France, the youngest of four children of Simon-René Braille, a harness-maker and leatherworker. At the age of three, while playing in his father's workshop, he accidentally injured one of his eyes with a sharp tool; infection spread to both eyes, leaving him completely blind. 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She served as a teacher and principal at the M Street Sc… 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. 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He later moved to Philadelphia, where he established himself as a successful businessman and civic leader. text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=bhimrao_ramji_ambedkar&rev=1750081549&do=diff Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) Biography Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), popularly known as Babasaheb, was a prominent figure in Indian history, revered for his contributions to social reform and education. Born into the Mahar community, considered untouchables in Maharashtra, Ambedkar overcame societal barriers to become a leading voice for the oppressed. 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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 2026-04-18T19:08:30+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 2026-04-18T15:19:07+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. 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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 2026-04-18T19:21:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=loris_malaguzzi&rev=1776540069&do=diff Loris Malaguzzi (1920–1994) Biography Loris Malaguzzi was born on 23 February 1920 in Correggio, a small city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and moved with his family to the city of Reggio Emilia at the age of three, the place where he would live and work for the rest of his life. He trained as an elementary school teacher and, following the liberation of Italy from fascist rule at the end of the Second World War, encountered the ideas of John Dewey — whose writings had been b… text/html 2026-04-18T19:22:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=margaret_bancroft&rev=1776540155&do=diff Margaret Bancroft (1854–1912) Biography Margaret Bancroft was born on 28 June 1854 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Harvey and Rebecca Bancroft, a Quaker family of Welsh immigrant descent living in the Germantown section of the city. Her father operated a successful mercantile business, and the family's Quaker values — which placed particular weight on the spiritual equality of all persons and the obligation of practical benevolence — shaped her outlook from childhood. She studied at the Phil… text/html 2026-04-19T08:37:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=max_weber&rev=1776587844&do=diff Max Weber (1864–1920) Biography Max Weber was born on 21 April 1864 in Erfurt, Prussia, into a prosperous and politically engaged bourgeois family that gave him early exposure to the world of liberal politics, law, and Protestant piety. 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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 2026-04-19T08:40:07+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. 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He studied psychology at Reed College in Oregon, where Professor Carol Creedon mentored his undergraduate thesis and encouraged him toward a career in education, and he went on to earn a doctorate in social relations from Johns Hopkins University in 19… text/html 2026-04-19T08:39:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=socrates&rev=1776587985&do=diff Socrates (469–399 BCE) Biography Socrates was born around 469 BCE in Athens to Sophroniscus, a stonemason, and Phaenarete, a midwife — a parentage he invoked memorably in describing his own intellectual practice as a form of maieutics, midwifery of the mind. 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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 2026-04-19T08:37:05+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 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 2026-04-19T08:38:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=wendy_kopp&rev=1776587904&do=diff Wendy Kopp (1967–) Biography Wendy Kopp was born in 1967 in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in a context of relative privilege that would later sharpen her awareness of educational inequality. She studied at Princeton University, where in 1989 she wrote her senior thesis proposing the creation of a national teacher corps — a domestic Peace Corps for education — as the mechanism for addressing the persistent gap in educational opportunity between wealthy and low-income communities in the United Stat…