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Why and how people should be educated has, throughout history, preoccupied some of civilization's greatest minds. This work summarizes and analyzes the thinking on education of fifty individuals drawn from a time span covering 500 BC to the nineteenth century. Each essay gives biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, and assessment of his or her impact and influence, a list of their major writings and suggested further reading.Tags
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- Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey
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- Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Biography & Memoir, Religion & Spirituality
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- 370.92 — Society, government, & culture Education Education History, geographic treatment, biography Educational biography
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- LB17 .F56 — Education Theory and practice of education Theory and practice of education General
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