http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-19T02:38:12+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg 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 2026-04-18T19:09:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=john_locke&rev=1776539353&do=diff John Locke (1632–1704) Biography John Locke was born on 29 August 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, England, the son of a country attorney who had served as a cavalry captain in the Parliamentary forces during the Civil War — a background that instilled in the young Locke both a Puritan seriousness of purpose and a practical orientation toward the affairs of the world. He was educated at Westminster School, then one of the most demanding institutions in England, before entering Christ Church, Oxford… 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 2025-08-08T07:18:52+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 2026-04-18T14:45:03+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 2026-04-18T14:26:12+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 2026-04-18T15:10:25+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. He received his early formation at the Collegium Fridericianum (1732–1740), a rigorous institution shaped by Lutheran pietism, before beginning university studies in Königsberg in 1740, where he embraced theology, natural sciences, physics, and math… text/html 2026-04-18T19:20:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=lee_s._shulman&rev=1776540020&do=diff Lee S. Shulman (1938– ) Biography Lee S. Shulman was born in 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Jewish immigrant parents who operated a family delicatessen — an early and informal school in social navigation, customer relations, and the interpretation of human character. 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 2026-04-18T19:38:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=martin_luther&rev=1776541085&do=diff Martin Luther (1483–1546) Biography Martin Luther was born on 10 November 1483 in Eisleben, in the County of Mansfeld in the Holy Roman Empire, the second of eight children born to Hans and Margarethe Luther. His father, a copper miner who rose to lease several foundries, was determined that Martin should study law, and enrolled him first at the Latin school in Mansfeld, then at schools in Magdeburg and Eisenach, and finally at the University of Erfurt, where Luther completed a master of arts … text/html 2026-04-18T19:39:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=michael_grahame_moore&rev=1776541170&do=diff Michael Grahame Moore (1938– ) Biography Michael Grahame Moore was born in 1938 and is Distinguished Professor of Education (Emeritus) at the Pennsylvania State University, where he taught from 1986 until his retirement in 2013. His path to becoming the founding theorist of contemporary distance education (DE) began not in North America but in East Africa, where he worked between 1963 and 1970, developing and teaching what is believed to be one of the first DE programmes in Africa — a correspo…