Notable Names in Education

*Socrates - "know thy self"

*Plato - wrote the "Republic"

*Aristotle - Father of Modern Sciences

*Cicero - Wrote the "Oratore"

*Quintillian - Wrote "Institution Oratoria" He was a famous grammaticus

*Anselm - father of scholasticism

*Abelard - spearheaded Conceptualism

*St Thomas Aquinas - wrote "Summa Theologiae"

*Eramus - 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

*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

Sensualium Pictus"

Francis Bacon - wrote the " The New Atlantis"

Mulcaster - said that " Education should be in accordance with nature"

*John Locke - "tabula rasa" (Blank sheet)

*John Jacques Rosseau - wrote "Emile" (Education should be in accordance with the nature of the

child)

*Pestallozi - defined education as natural, symmetrical and harmonious development of the faculties

of the child

* Herbart - conceived education as aimed towards the development of morality and virtue. He is the

famous for the Herbatian Method in psycology

*Froebel - Father of kindergarten

*John Dewey - "Education is not a preparation for life, it is life"

*St. John Baptiste de la Salle - patron saint of teachers

*Maria Montessori - advocated the child - centered education and prepared environment.