http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-20T02:26:05+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg 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 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=charlotte_hawkins_brown&rev=1750081549&do=diff Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883-1961) Biography Charlotte Hawkins Brown was a prominent Black educator and activist who played a significant role in advancing education and activism, particularly for Black children in the Jim Crow South. Born on June 11, 1883, in Henderson, North Carolina, just eight years after Emancipation, Brown's early life was marked by her mother's dedication to education and her exposure to teaching and public speaking at a young age. 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 2026-04-18T19:23:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=marie_clay&rev=1776540203&do=diff Marie Clay (1926–2007) Biography Marie Mildred Irwin was born on 3 January 1926 in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand's North Island, where she would complete her initial teacher training at the Wellington College of Education in 1945 and earn a bachelor of arts degree — with a senior scholarship in education — from the University of New Zealand in 1946. She completed a master of arts degree in 1948, with a thesis titled The Teaching of Reading to Special Class Children, while working… 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 2026-04-20T01:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=deborah_meier&rev=1776648655&do=diff Deborah Meier (1931-) Biography Deborah Meier is an American educator, author, and school founder who has been a leading voice in U.S. educational reform for more than fifty years and the first K–12 teacher to receive the MacArthur Fellowship. Born on April 6, 1931, in New York City to Joseph and Pearl Willen — both politically active, with Joseph running the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and Pearl volunteering widely and running once for City Council — Meier was raised in a household co… text/html 2026-04-20T01:33:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=diane_ravitch&rev=1776648823&do=diff Diane Ravitch (b. 1938) Biography Diane Silvers Ravitch is an American historian of education, public intellectual, and former federal education official whose work has both chronicled and altered the course of American schooling for nearly half a century. Born on July 1, 1938, in Houston, Texas, the third of eight children of Anna and Walter Silvers — small-business owners in the city's Heights neighborhood — Ravitch attended the Houston public schools and graduated as one of four valedictori… text/html 2026-04-20T01:41:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=ho_chi_minh&rev=1776649282&do=diff Hồ Chí Minh (1890–1969) Biography Hồ Chí Minh was born Nguyễn Sinh Cung on 19 May 1890 in Kim Liên village, Nam Đàn district, Nghệ An province — the same landscape of Confucian scholarship and anti-colonial resistance that had produced text/html 2026-04-18T15:16:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=isocrates&rev=1776525393&do=diff Isocrates (436–338 BCE) Biography Isocrates was born in 436 BCE into a wealthy Athenian family whose fortune allowed his father, a prosperous flute maker, to provide him with an exceptional education — including attendance at lectures by the leading intellectual figures of the day. Among his teachers, he is believed to have studied under Prodicus of Ceos, Tisias of Syracuse, Theramenes, Socrates, and most significantly Gorgias of Leontini, the Sicilian philosopher-orator regarded as one of the… text/html 2026-04-19T08:40:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=ken_robinson&rev=1776588040&do=diff Sir Ken Robinson (1950–2020) Biography Ken Robinson was born on 4 March 1950 in Liverpool, the sixth of seven children in a working-class family, and his early life was marked by an experience that would inform his educational philosophy at the deepest level: at the age of four he contracted polio, an illness that also left his father quadriplegic, and he attended a school for physically disabled children where he first encountered teachers who understood that children's potential could not be… 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 2026-04-18T19:41:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=michael_whitman_apple&rev=1776541271&do=diff Michael Whitman Apple (1942– ) Biography Michael Whitman Apple was born in New Jersey to a working-class family of printers — a background he has reflected on as formative, since it meant that “literacy and the struggles over it were connected to differential power 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 2026-04-19T08:41:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=wilhelm_von_humboldt&rev=1776588067&do=diff Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) Biography Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt was born on 22 June 1767 in Potsdam into a family of the Pomeranian nobility, the elder of two brothers — the younger being the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt — whose parallel intellectual lives would reshape European thought in the early nineteenth century. Wilhelm and Alexander were educated by private tutors of exceptional quality, including the Kantian pedagogue Joachim Heinri… text/html 2026-04-19T08:41:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=wolfgang_ratke&rev=1776588086&do=diff Wolfgang Ratke (1571–1635) Biography Wolfgang Ratke (also known by the Latinised form Ratichius) was born in 1571 in Wilster, a small town in Holstein, and received his early education in a context shaped by Lutheran humanism — the intellectual tradition that united Protestant theological reform with the recovery of classical languages and the ambition to extend education more widely through society. He studied at the University of Rostock, where he gained training in theology, philosophy, mat…