In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Alphabetical list of contents viii Notes on contributors x Preface xiii Confucius, 551--479 BCE 1(4) Jianping Shen Socrates, 469--399 BCE 5(5) Christopher J. Rowe Plato, 427--347 BCE 10(4) David E. Cooper Aristotle, 384--322 BCE 14(6) Peter Hobson Jesus of Nazareth, 4 BCE--AD 29 20(5) Connie Leean Seraphine Saint Augustine, 354--430 25(4) P.J. FitzPatrick Al-Ghazzali, 1058--1111 29(4) Hani A. Tawil Ibn Tufayl, c. 1106--85 33(3) Dalal Malhas Steitieh Desiderius Erasmus, 1466--1536 36(5) G.R. Batho Jan Amos Comenius, 1592--1670 41(4) Jaroslav Peprnik John Locke, 1632--1704 45(5) Richard Smith John Wesley, 1703--91 50(5) Henry D. Rack Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712--78 55(5) Timothy O'Hagan Immanuel Kant, 1724--1804 60(4) Adam B. Dickerson Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, 1746--1827 64(5) Daniel Trohler Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759--97 69(4) Jane Roland Martin Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1762--1814 73(6) James A. Clarke Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1767--1835 79(5) Jurgen Oelkers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770--1831 84(5) James A. Clarke Johann Friedrich Herbart, 1776--1841 89(5) Jurgen Oelkers Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel, 1782--1852 94(6) Daniel J. Walsh Shunah Chung Aysel Tufekci John Henry Newman, 1801--90 100(4) P.J. FitzPatrick John Stuart Mill, 1806--73 104(4) David E. Cooper Charles Darwin, 1809--82 108(7) Louis M. Smith John Ruskin, 1819--1900 115(5) Anthony O'Hear Herbert Spencer, 1820--1903 120(3) G. R. Batho Matthew Arnold, 1822--88 123(5) Anthony O'Hear Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825--95 128(4) David Knight Louisa May Alcott, 1832--88 132(6) Susan Laird Samuel Butler, 1835--1902 138(5) Nel Noddings Robert Morant, 1836--1920 143(3) G. R. Batho Eugenio Maria de Hostos, 1839--1903 146(8) Angel Villarini Jusino Carlos Antonio Torre Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844--1900 154(6) Thomas E. Hart Alfred Binet, 1857--1911 160(5) David A. Bergin Gregory J. Cizek Emile Durkheim, 1858--1917 165(4) William Pickering Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, 1858--1964 169(8) Arlette Ingram Willis Violet Harris John Dewey, 1859--1952 177(5) Michael W. Apple Kenneth Teitelbaum Jane Addams, 1860--1935 182(5) Nel Noddings Rudolf Steiner, 1861--1925 187(5) Jurgen Oelkers Rabindranath Tagore, 1861--1941 192(5) Krishna Dutta Andrew Robinson Alfred North Whitehead, 1861--1947 197(9) Nancy C. Ellis Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, 1865--1950 206(6) Joan Russell William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 1868--1963 212(7) Violet Harris Arlette Ingram Willis M.K. Gandhi, 1869--1948 219(5) Devi Prasad Maria Montessori, 1870--1952 224(5) Jane Roland Martin Bertrand Russell, 1872--1970 229(4) Ray Monk E.L. Thorndike, 1874--1949 233(6) William L. Bewley Eva L. Baker Martin Buber, 1878--1965 239(4) Christine Thompson Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1883--1955 243(5) Diego Sevilla Cyril Lodovic Burt, 1883--1971 248 Jim Ridgway