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Lives of Important Educational Figures

The document examines the lives and contributions of several key figures in the field of education. Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, made significant strides in understanding how children learn by studying his own children.

Lives of Important Educational Figures

Lives of Important Educational Figures

Howard Gardner

Redefined view of how students learn
Greater influence on performance testing

Help show educators there is an importance to teach in different ways because kids learn in different ways

Showed there are different ways for students to learn besides just lecturing

Song of Nazi refugees from Holocaust
Worked his way up to Harvard Professor

Used his knowledge obtained from both his parents experience with holocaust and personal experience to perceive how students learn differently

Wrote of 30 books informing on the way students learn

John Dewey

Progressive Education
Children should be able to think and not just but told knowledge to memorize

Concerned for teachers rights

Children learn in different ways

Dewey received good education growing up
Mother died when he was young

Began teaching 1984

Started his own experimental elementary school in 1984

Margaret Bancroft

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Created first private boarding school for children with learning delays

Believed children with special needs needed separate schools than other kids

Required special, patient teachers to help these students

Grew up in Philadelphia
Recognized that people with learning disabilities should receive education too

Had biggest school of mentally deficient named after her in 1904

Charlotte Mason

Advocate for homeschooling
Used "living books" instead of textbooks

Asks students to retell the lesson instead of answer questions in back of book

Emphasized a broad education and respecting the child

Born in Great Britain
Orphaned at age of 16

Children during her time were educated based on social class so she wanted to give people a chance of at home education

Horace Mann

Father of the Common School
Wanted to fund schools with public dollars

Allowed schools to be specialized to certain areas (cities/states)

Progressive movement

Grew up in poverty
Did not receive a good education so wanted better for other kids

Was elected to House of Representatives at age 31

Jean Piget

Educational influence
major contributions on how children learn

teachers can learn from how children react to their own errors

Had 3 children
used them for his psychological studies
Swiss Psychologist
First to make systematic study of children's understanding

Booker T Washington

Leader in teaching education
advocated for equality in schools
Created Tuskegee Institute
Life
born into slavery

Completely self educated

rose into leader of African American intelligence

views conflicted with other black leaders