Education
Education reformers decided what a childhood is for. Universal schooling, kindergarten, literacy campaigns and critical pedagogy come from the figures collected here, and their arguments still run every curriculum fight.
16 indexed lives · 0 Nobel laureates · 7 countries
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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
Rudolf Steiner
1861 – 1925Founded anthroposophic medicine with Ita Wegman; still practised in European hospitals.
Austria·Integrative Medicine · Philosophy · Education