John Elkington
Educator, speaker, pioneer of the triple bottom line concept which is for social, environmental, financial impact in business (more commonly as ESG)
Abraham Flexner
Educator, creator of the Flexner Report on Medical Education
Booker T. Washington
Educator, orator, author, advisor to US Presidents, first president of Tuskegee University
1856-1915 (59)
tuskegee.edu
Cecelia Tichi living
Professor, academic, author, mystery novelist, formerly President of American Studies Association
1942- (82)
Daniel Coit Gilman
Educator, pioneer in postgraduate education, academic, co-founder of Sheffield Scientic School at Yale College, Skull & Bones Society at Yale, 2nd president of UC Berkeley, founding president of Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), Carnegie Institution (Foundation)
1831-1908 (77)
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Eberhard I
Duke of Württemberg, educator, founder of Tübingen University
Elizabeth Peabody
Teacher aka Miss Peabody, educator, she opened the first kindergarten class in the United States (USA), pioneer in transcendentalism
1804-1894 (90)
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Georges Doriot
Professor, educator, inventor of the venture capitalist idealogy, business conduct and dress codes
1899-1987 (88)
Helen Keller
author with deafness & blindness, educator, philosopher, pioneer of do something that scares yourself
1880-1968 (88)
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Horace Mann
Whig politician, promoter of public education in 1848, educational reformer
Hosea Ballou II
Universalist church minister, pioneer in universalism, 1st president at Tufts University from 1853-1861
Jane Elliott
Teacher, educator, psychologist, pioneer of the "blue eyes/brown eyes" experiment for school kids, lecturer, diversity trainer, author of A Collar in My Pocket
janeelliott.com
John Craven
Educator, founder of Craven scholaships at Oxford University, Cambridge University
1610-1648 (38)
John Dewey
Educator, teacher, writer, philosopher, pioneer in pragmatism, socialist, psychologist, pedagogical theories, father of progressive education in the United States, modern schools, known for the Dewey decimal system, president of the Fabian Socialist League for Industrial Democracy (LID)
1859-1952 (93)
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John Pounds
educator for "ragged schools", Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper) formed the Ragged School Union
John Sperling
Billionaire, Apollo Group, founder of the University of Phoenix, educator
Laura Spelman Rockefeller
school teacher, educator, abolitionist, activist, philanthropist
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Lex Fridman living
computer scientist, educator at MIT, podcaster about AI (artificial intelligence), robotics and other such topics on his Lex Fridman Podcast
1983- (41)
lexfridman.com
Maria Montessori
educator, founder of the Montessori school Casa dei Bambini (Children's House) in 1907, pioneer in self-paced learning, individualism and hands-on instruction, physician, doctor, humanitarian, philanthropist, author of The Montessori Method, The Secret of Childhood, The Discovery of the Child, The Absorbent Mind
1870-1952 (82)
dailymontessori.com
Nita Ambani
Educator, schoolteacher, chair of Dhirubhai Ambani International School, her husband is Mukesh Ambani
Jean Henri Pestalozzi
Romanticism author, Die Ephemerides, educator, pioneer of the Pestalozzianism form of education system, pedagogue, educational reformer, freemasonry
1746-1827 (81)
Peter Diamandis living
Educator, executive chairman of Singularity University, founder of the XPRIZE Foundation in 1994, co-founder of BOLD Capital Partners, co-founder and vice-chairman of Celularity therapeutics
1961- (63)
diamandis.com
Richard Ivey living
Educator, prestigious namesake Richard Ivey Business School in Canada for HBA/MBA
1925- (99)
William Collins
Founder of the Collins English Dictionary, educator, scholar