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| Maria Montessori | Believes in hands-on, freedom with limits, discovery learning |
| Prudence Crandall | Created the first African-American student school |
| Comenius | Believes that we learn from birth through death |
| Benjamin Franklin | Founded the University of Pensylvania |
| Thomas Jefferson | Founded the University of Virginia. Developed comprehensive levels for education |
| Johann Herbart | believed education methods include psychology and ethics |
| Friedrich Frobel | established kindergarten |
| Horace Mann | established schools for teacher training among many other educ improvements |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | Founded today's Bethune-Cookman College |
| Sylvia Ashton-Warner | Learning must be real, organic |
| Kenneth B. Clark | "Doll Tests" used to remove race-related barriers in education |
| Jerome Bruner | Known for Man: A course of study, curriculum development |
| Paulo Reglus | heavily endorses students’ ability to think critically about their education situation |
| John Dewey | a major representative of progressive education and liberalism |
| Marva Collins | uses the Socratic method to teach unteachable students successfully |
| Albert Bandura | known for the 1961 Bobo doll aggression experiment |
| Jean Piaget | Piaget's (1936) theory of cognitive development is about how a child constructs a mental model of the world. |
