Fifty Major Thinkers on Education. From Confucius to Dewey (2001)

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 Plato St. Augustine Eamus John Wesley Immanuel Kant Mary Wollstonecaft Nietzche John Dewey Rudolf Steiner

Together with Fifty Contemporary Thinkers on Education, this book provides an intellectual history of educational thinking, through the ages. Each essay gives biographical information, an outline of the individual’s principal achievements and activities, an assessment of his or her impact and influence, a list of their major writings and suggested further reading.

Editors Joy Palmer, Liora Bresler, David Edward Cooper
Publisher Routledge, 2001
ISBN 0415231256, 9780415231251
Length 254 pages

Keywords and phrases
eurhythmics, Al-Ghazzali, Ibn Tufayl, African American, Confucius, Aristotle, Plato, Fichte, Hegel, Louisa May Alcott, John Dewey, Little Women, Bertrand Russell, Socrates, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Alfred North Whitehead, Alfred Binet, Rabindranath Tagore, Dalcroze, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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