| A | B |
| Benjamin Bloom | Create, analyze, apply, understand, remember |
| Ben Franklin | believed in student-led experimentation and learning through your own personal experience. Educate all children. |
| Horace Mann | Father of Education. Educate all children and keep religion out of the schools |
| John Dewey | John Dewey originated the experimentalism philosophy. A proponent of social change and education reform. Wrote a series of lectures in 1917 that are the foundation of US schools today |
| Lawrence Kohlberg | Six stages of moral development |
| Maria Montessori | a way of learning that emphasizes child led active learning, independence, cooperation, and learning in harmony with each child’s development pace |
| Thomas Jefferson | What does this have to do with education? Jefferson was a proponent of an educated society to protect against government ruling. |
| Jean Piaget | believed that children are active learners that build their knowledge and craft it from their respective environments |
| Howard Gardner | there are multiple intelligences and that we all use them for effective learning |
| Friedrich Froebel | Friedrich Froebel is the father of Kindergarten(children’s garden). |
| B.F. Skinner | Operant conditioning is a method of learning that takes place through rewarding a certain behavior or withholding reward for undesirable behavior. |
| Ivan Pavlov | classical conditioning, explains how people associate two stimuli in their minds and react to one of them as though it was the other. |
| Albert Bandura | Developed the self-efficacy theory. Self efficacy judgments demonstrate a goal can be achieved. |
| Paulo Freire | believed that education was more than simple literacy; rather it should be a vehicle for people to assess their conditions and those responsible for it. Education, for Freire, was supposed to include questions about the search for identity, equality, and justice. |
| Jane Addams | (1860-1935), the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is known for her rally against gender discrimination in education as well as her vision of education and schooling as a means to educate well shaped students to become better social citizens. |
| Aristotle | Believed that education gave an individual happiness and taught reasoning. |
| Johann Pestalozzi | Believed that education was the foundation for an individual’s life. Developed physical education. |
| Jean - Jacques Rousseau | Wrote Emilie. Argued against a teacher centered education. |
| John Comenius | Designed currently followed schooling structure. |
| John Locke | Said children were born as blank tablets and their experiences determine who they are. |
| Plato | Believed in life-long learning. |
| Margaret Bancroft | Pioneer of special education in American Society. |