Helene AdlerW
Helene Adler

Helene Adler was a German Jewish educator, writer, and poet.

Samuel AlexanderW
Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.

Joel DeutschW
Joel Deutsch

Joel Deutsch was a Moravian Jewish writer, pedagogue, and distinguished deaf educator.

John DeweyW
John Dewey

John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

Adolph DiesterwegW
Adolph Diesterweg

Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg was a German educator, thinker, and progressive liberal politician, who campaigned for the secularization of schools. He is said to be precursory to the reform of pedagogy. Diesterweg is considered as "a teacher of teachers".

Gustav Friedrich DinterW
Gustav Friedrich Dinter

Gustav Friedrich Dinter (1760–1831) was a German pedagogue, theologian and author.

Friedrich DittesW
Friedrich Dittes

Friedrich Dittes was a German-Austrian educator, known for his reform efforts within the Austrian school system.

Friedrich FröbelW
Friedrich Fröbel

Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel was a German pedagogue, a student of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. He created the concept of the kindergarten and coined the word, which soon entered the English language as well. He also developed the educational toys known as Froebel gifts.

Johann Friedrich HerbartW
Johann Friedrich Herbart

Johann Friedrich Herbart was a German philosopher, psychologist and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline.

Friedrich Immanuel NiethammerW
Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer

Friedrich Philipp Immanuel Niethammer, later Ritter von Niethammer, was a German theologian, philosopher and Lutheran educational reformer.

Johann Heinrich PestalozziW
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.