Fifty Major Thinkers on Education From Confucius to Dewey

Why and how people should be educated has, throughout history, preoccupied some of civilization's greatest minds. This unique work summarizes and analyzes the thinking on education of fifty individuals drawn from a time span covering 500 BC to the nineteenth century. Among those included are:
-- Confucius
-- Erasmus
-- Mary Wollstonecraft
-- John Dewey
-- Plato
-- John Wesley
-- Nietzsche
-- Rudolf Steiner
-- St. Augustine
-- Immanuel Kant

Each essay gives biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, and assessment of his or her impact and influence, a list of their major writings and suggested further reading.

In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Covering a time-span from 500 BC to the early twentieth century each essay gives key biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, an assessment of their impact and influence, a list of their major writings and suggested further reading. Together with Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education, this book provides a unique reference guide for all students of education.

Alphabetical list of contents, Notes on contributors, Preface, Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus of Nazareth, Saint Augustine, Al-Ghazzali, Ibn Tufayl, Erasmus, Comenius, John Locke, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Mary Wollstonecraft, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel, John Henry Newman, John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Henry Huxley, Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Butler, Robert Morant, Eugenio Maris de Hostos, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alfred Binet, Emile Durkheim, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, John Dewey, Jane Addams, Rudolf Steiner, Rabindranath Tagore, Alfred North Whitehead, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, M K Ghandhi, Maria Montessori, Bertrand Russell, E L Thorndike, Martin Buber, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Cyril Lodovic Burt