Thinkers on education

Learning is as much about gaining new insights for yourself as educating others. To facilitate the rediscovery of education and learning, smartKPIs.com presents the profiles of some of the most well-known educators from antiquity to date.

These profiles were originally published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in PROSPECTS: Quarterly review of comparative education, and are reproduced with permission from the publisher, UNESCO's International Bureau of Education.

Written by scholars, the profiles outline the life, ideas and ideals of over 100 famous educators (including philosophers, statesmen, politicians, journalists, psychologists, poets, men of religion) from around of the world.


Adisehiah, Malcolm (1910-1994)
Alain (1868-1951)
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Aurobindo, Sri (1872-1950)
Avicenna / Ibn Sina (980?-1037)

Beeby, Clarence Edward (1902-1992)
Bello, Andrés (1781-1865)
Bernstein, Basil (1924–2000)
Bettelheim, Bruno (1903-1990)
Binet, Alfred (1857-1911)

Bloom, Benjamin (1913-1999)
Blonsky, Pavel Petrovich (1884-1941)
al-Boustani, Boutros (1819-1883)
Buber, Martin (1878-1965)
Cai, Yuanpei (1868-1940)

Calasanz, Joseph (1557–1648)
Claparède, Edouard (1873–1940)
Comenius, Jan Amos (1592-1670)
Comte, Auguste (1796–1857)
Condorcet, Marquiz de (1743–1794)

Confucius (551-479 BC)
Cousinet, Roger (1881–1973)
Dawid, Jan Wladyslaw (1859-1914)
Decroly, Jean-Ovide (1871–1932)
Dewey, John (1859-1952)

Diesterweg, Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm (1790-1866)
Dolto, Françoise (1908–1988)
Durkheim, Emile (1858-1917)
Eötvös, József (1813–71)
Erasmus, Desiderius (1467?–1536)

Fafunwa, Aliu Babtunde (1923–)
al-Farabi (259-339 AH / 872-950 AD)
Ferrière, Adolphe (1879–1960)
Freinet, Célestin (1896-1966)
Freire, Paulo (1921–1997)

Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
Fröbel, Friedrich (1782–1852)
Fukuzawa, Yukichi (1835–1901)
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869–1948)
al-Ghazali (450-505 AH / 1058-1111 AD)

Giner de los Ríos, Francisco (1839–1915)
Glinos, Dimitri (1882-1943)
Goodman, Paul (1911-1972)
Gramsci, Antonio (1891-1937)
Grundtvig, N.F.S. (1783–1872)

Grzegorzewska, Maria (1888-1967)
Hegel, Georg (1770—1831)
Herbart, Johann Friedrich (1776-1841)
Hesselgren, Kerstin (1872-1964)
Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1767-1835)

Husén, Torsten (1916-2009)
Hussein, Taha (1889-1973)
Illich, Ivan (1926-)
Jaspers, Karl (1883-1969)
Jovellanos, Gaspar Melchor de (1744–1811)

Jullien de Paris, Marc-Antoine (1775–1848)

Notes:

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