Title: Cultural foundations of education : a biographical introduction /
Authors: Gutek, Gerald Lee.
Publisher: Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Educators Biography
Contents: Educational biography and the cultural foundations of education -- Plato : idealist philosopher and educator for the perfect society -- Quintilian : rhetorical educator in service of the emperor -- Thomas Aquinas : scholastic theologian and creator of the medieval Christian synthesis -- Desiderius Erasmus : Renaissance humanist and cosmopolitan educator -- John Calvin : theologian and educator of the Protestant Reformation -- Jean Jacques Rousseau : prophet of naturalism -- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi : proponent of educating the heart and senses -- Thomas Jefferson : advocate of republican education -- Horace Mann : leader of the common school movement -- Robert Owen : utopian socialist and communitarian educator -- Friedrich Froebel : founder of the kindergarten -- Herbert Spencer : advocate of individualism, science, and social Darwinism -- Nikolai Lenin : the revolutionary educator -- Jane Addams : advocate of socialized education -- Maria Montessori : proponent of early childhood education -- John Dewey : pragmatist philosopher and progressive educator -- Mohandas Gandhi : father of Indian independence -- W.E.B. Du Bois : activist for black equality.