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Emma Curtis Hopkins
1849 – 1925The 'teacher of teachers' who trained the founders of Unity, Divine Science and Religious Science.
United States·New Thought · Education
John Dewey
1859 – 1952Pragmatist whose learning-by-doing reshaped schools on every continent.
United States·Philosophy · Education
Benedict Lust
1872 – 1945German émigré who founded American naturopathy and its first college in 1902.
United States·Integrative Medicine · Education