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Socrates -“know thy self”
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Plato - wrote the “Republic”
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Aristotle - Father of Modern Sciences
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Ciero - Wrote the “Oratore”
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Quintillian - Wrote” Institution Oratoria” he was a
famous Grammaticus
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Anselm - father of scholasticism
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Abelard - spearheaded Conceptualism
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St. Thomas Aquinas - “wrote” Summa Theologiae”
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Erasmus - suggested that education be in accordance
with the needs of society, he was a humanist who advocated the importance of
studying the character of the child
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Ascham - wrote the “Schoolmaster” condemning brutal
punishment in English schools during his time.
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John Amos Comenius - father of modern education, he wrote the
first picture book” Orbis Senualium Pictus”
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Mulcaster - said that” Education should be in
accordance with nature”
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John Locke-“tabula rasa’ ( blank sheet)
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John Jacques Rosseau - wrote” Emile” (Education should be in
accordance with the nature of the child)
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Pestallozzi - defined education as the natural ,
symmetrical and harmonious development of the faculties of the child
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Herbart - conceived education as aimed towards the
development of morality and virtue. He is famous for the Herbatian Method in
psychology
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Froebel - father of kindergarten
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John Dewey - “Education is not preparation for life, it
is life”
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St.John Baptiste de la Salle - patron saint of
teachers
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Maria Montessori - advocated the child-centered education and
prepared environment