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- early twentieth-century American education. In 1921, Irwin founded ... regarded as a powerful force in the freeing of education from the strictures ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- 1, 1918) was an American educator and one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... at a young age became familiar with the work of Friedrich Froebel. She became ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- an American educator and editor. A critic of pragmatism and progressive ... 15, 1874, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of William Chase and Ruth Walker ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- Category:Education [[Image:BlgGym.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Modern indoor ... In most educational systems, physical education (PE), (also called ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- Category:Education institution that teaches an inclusive range of subjects across the academic ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- an American educator, dedicated to the education of young children. After ... Susan Blow was born in St. Louis, Missouri, as the oldest of six children ...9 KB (1,286 words) - 23:57, 26 February 2023
- He served as the U.S. Commissioner of Education, during which time ... In 1859, he became a principal in one of the public schools in St ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- Category:Education the building intended for indoor sports or exercise|gym A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education and ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- advocate. She is famous for her promotion of higher education for women ... greatly advanced the opportunities for education for women in the US, giving ...10 KB (1,461 words) - 23:44, 3 December 2023
- was a Flemish composer and music theorist of the Renaissance era. Tinctoris ... He is known to have studied in Orleans, and to have been master of ...4 KB (573 words) - 07:20, 5 April 2024
- for her forthright opinions on women’s education. Unlike her sisters, Catherine ... Beecher was born in East Hampton, New York, the oldest of 13 children ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- Category:Education [[Image:Village school in Northern Bahr el Ghazal ... Coeducation is the integrated education of males and females at the ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 22:24, 7 January 2024
- Category:Education about educating gifted students, see Gifted education. [[Image:Teacher ...20 KB (2,954 words) - 19:10, 7 February 2023
- social critic, and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism. Tawney ... 30, 1880, in Calcutta, India, the son of a respected Sanskrit scholar ...14 KB (1,999 words) - 01:48, 14 December 2022
- Category:Education jpg|thumb|300 px|Walton Hall, headquarters of the Open University. (Artist: ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
- Category:Education [[Image:IVE Tsing Yi.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Hong Kong Institute of ...18 KB (2,528 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- Category:Education students for a college or university education. Some schools will also ...13 KB (1,906 words) - 22:22, 30 November 2022
- Category:Education [[Image:Landaff 1940s.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Teacher ... education and society, while the history of education gives an overview ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 04:37, 27 February 2023
- Category:Education but also include courses on the doctrines of the church and often offer ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- for his Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science. He was also ... he was also a key figure in the advancement of the British system of university ...12 KB (1,648 words) - 04:20, 29 October 2022
- a prominent law professor, and a signer of the United States Declaration ... Wythe, influenced by an education rooted in classical tradition, contributed ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 22:41, 24 November 2022
- 1957), older sister to Grace Abbott, both of Grand Island, Nebraska, began ... Edith Abbott was born into a family that believed in the ideals of ...7 KB (1,082 words) - 18:12, 12 February 2024
- Secondary education in France falls under the jurisdiction of the ... allows the student to continue to higher education, studies in technology ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 17:43, 25 January 2023
- Category:Education the type of school providing secondary education|gymnasium (school) ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- Category:Education the Fulbright-Hays Program is a program of grants for international educational ...11 KB (1,431 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- famous for his work in children's education, particularly the invention ... in Thuringia (now Germany), the fifth of six children. The village where ...15 KB (2,345 words) - 06:41, 15 April 2024
- in central Seoul, South Korea. One of the city's largest institutions ... 1925. Immediately following the liberation of Korea on August 15, 1945, the ...11 KB (1,562 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 02:16, 11 August 2022
- that focuses on the online visibility of and access to African-origin ... International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities ... school and weekend programs for students of all ages, including even college ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 01:09, 7 April 2022
- important contributions to literature, education, and science Among his ... Lomonosov was born in the village of Denisovka (the name of which ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- philosopher, and diplomat, an advocate of peace through education. The ... L. Butler and Mary Murray Butler, daughter of Nicholas Murray, a clergyman ...14 KB (2,044 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- Category:Education and services they offer as well as the type of students they attract. Despite ...21 KB (3,019 words) - 00:18, 8 January 2024
- was an acclaimed American pioneer in the education of the deaf. He founded ... on December 10, 1787, the oldest of eight children. His family ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- , located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, is one of the most prestigious universities ... Today Keio Gijuku Daigaku includes undergraduate faculties of Business ...12 KB (1,563 words) - 17:19, 5 October 2022
- and the United States. He was a student of French physician Jean Marc ... Seguin's approach was influenced by utopian ideas, such as those ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 01:33, 16 January 2023
- Category:Education where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known ...23 KB (3,445 words) - 10:17, 21 January 2023
- he is often mentioned as the associate of Jeremy Bentham and as the father ... James Mill was born April 6, 1773, at Northwater Bridge, in the parish ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 08:37, 1 April 2024
- Denis-Auguste Affre (September 27, 1793– June 27, 1848), archbishop ... His ministry and episcopacy was set in the context of post-Revolution ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- a teacher and educational reformer, founder of the Kindergarten system in ... her daughter began teaching in at the age of 16. Education was the center ...11 KB (1,579 words) - 10:20, 21 January 2023
- District, West Bengal, India, consists of a theological college and a ... unable to retrieve. --> The Latin name of the college motto, Gloriam ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- Category:Education [[Image:CircleOfFriends.jpg |thumbnail|250px|A group of Outward Bound ...21 KB (3,090 words) - 05:58, 18 November 2022
- The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural ... Wilson Corcoran in 1869, and houses one of the most comprehensive collections ...7 KB (1,002 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- specialist curators research the background of the collection, interpret the ... contexts. Curators have the unique role of building a culture of peace ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- Category:Education [[Image:Centro-fotografico-students.jpg|right|thumb ... Adult education, also known as continuing education, is a broad term ...24 KB (3,446 words) - 06:19, 15 June 2023
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {|class="infobox ... was naturally to provide the best higher education for women. While for five ...12 KB (1,555 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- an educational institution (often a school of secondary education in Europe ... discussions there during the last third of the fifth century B.C.E. In ...14 KB (2,070 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- The British Film Institute (BFI) is one of the oldest film organizations ... the London Film Festival and offers a range of educational programs. In 2005 ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 02:42, 22 November 2023
- Category:Education to the high school counselor in terms of duties and services. Historically ...17 KB (2,422 words) - 08:00, 8 January 2024
- known in English as Academies or Academies of Classical Learning, were private ... *Taga, Akigoro. The History of Education in T'ang China: Todai ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 07:12, 14 June 2023
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges Liberal arts ... In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprised two ...23 KB (3,427 words) - 11:01, 7 March 2023
- who specifically focused on the advancement of child welfare. Younger sister ... One of four children, Grace Abbott was raised in a home environment ...7 KB (998 words) - 12:14, 24 January 2023
- Seminary (UTS), is an accredited institution of higher learning offering programs ... in the ministry, serving a wide spectrum of denominations and broadening ...14 KB (2,005 words) - 18:06, 1 December 2023
- and Northern Zhou (北周) Dynasties of northern China, and their successor ... also with literature, the arts, and problems of life and death. Yan stressed ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 10:09, 22 May 2023
- Category:Education funded school provided for public education; for the British public ...32 KB (4,665 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- theory, and their applications to education. method and its application to the study of human nature. Thus, he supported ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- who created the McGuffey Readers, one of America's first textbook ... on religion and a belief in the value of education. In 1802, the family ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
- The American Ballet Theatre (ABT), based in New York City, was one ... Few ballet companies equal ABT for its combination of size, scope ...8 KB (1,230 words) - 02:53, 24 July 2023
- reformer, who dedicated more than 40 years of his life to the education of ... the first of its kind in the history of education. The program of this ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 19:49, 22 December 2022
- Category:Education Preschool education is education that focuses on educating children ...23 KB (3,350 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- Category:Education Greek were emphasized. Four distinct uses of the word can be noted, the ...25 KB (3,841 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- this direction he helped lay the foundations of modern Korea. ... Henry Appenzeller was the second of three sons born to Gideon and ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- armaments manufacturer, and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, ... == Early life and education == Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden ...8 KB (1,208 words) - 18:04, 20 July 2023
- The Public Knowledge Project is a non-profit research initiative of ... Public Knowledge Project developed a number of types of open source ...14 KB (1,916 words) - 23:35, 2 December 2022
- Category:Education A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- and historian, better known as the “Father of the Olympics." Coubertin ... He was the primary force in the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896 ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- social worker and reformer, the pioneer of the social work education movement ... 1, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky, the second of seven children of Issa Desha ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 19:20, 14 February 2023
- The Science Museum (London) is one of many major science museums in ... has well integrated the past and the future of sciences and technologies, ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... most recognizable structure on the campus of Kyoto University]] ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- Category:Education Bilingual education involves teaching all subjects in school through ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- Category:Education [[Image:Musica 1488.jpg|thumb|250px|Early teaching ... * Monroe, Paul. A Text-Book in the History of Education. Macmillan, 1915. ...26 KB (3,614 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- significant research in the sociology of education which strongly impacted ... his Ph.D. in 1955, working with the Bureau of Applied Social Research (1953 ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, Order of Merit (OM), Privy Council ... Unusually, she was a Labour member of Parliament elected as Speaker ...16 KB (2,349 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- :For Science Museum of London, see Science museum (London) ... tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...10 KB (1,422 words) - 07:18, 5 October 2022
- the Transcendentalist movement as the editor of its journal The Dial. When ... From 1839 to the mid-1840s she organized discussion groups of women ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- , established in 1945, is an agency of the United Nations. Its purpose ... and offices throughout the world. Most of the field offices are "cluster ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 01:23, 3 May 2023
- involve movements that are a combination of difficult feats of balance ... flips, and other tricks to entertain large groups of people. ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... |affiliations = University Alliance Association of Commonwealth ...25 KB (3,516 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- – December 1, 1792) is the only playwright of the Russian Enlightenment whose ... Born in 1745, in Moscow, of a family of gentry, he received a good ...7 KB (1,096 words) - 02:31, 25 August 2020
- A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... For example, the University of Virginia Library provides access to ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- was very concerned with American higher education, and was known for his ... Crowd (1950) is considered a landmark study of American character. The analysis ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- | method = Education, training, research, lobbying | revenue = $125 ... largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization ...15 KB (2,010 words) - 04:19, 11 March 2023
- Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... Knowledge and understanding of the process of death and dying, and ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- woman ever allowed to practice at the bar of the United States Supreme Court ... Until her death in 1917, she worked tirelessly on behalf of the Universal ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- Category:Education Home education, also called homeschooling or home school, is the process ...29 KB (4,035 words) - 16:36, 1 March 2023
- James A. Naismith, (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) Bachelor ... November 6, 1861. James was the eldest son of Scottish immigrants John and ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 08:49, 18 March 2024
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven Sisters to become ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 14:40, 3 May 2023
- It provides a simple and standardized set of conventions for describing ... and "core" implies the possibility of expansion. In 1995, the OCLC ...13 KB (1,902 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- class life in Victorian London at the end of the nineteenth century. Booth ... His Life and Labour of the People of London provided important insights ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
- The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known ... The bureau was put into effect to protect the best interests of former ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, ... acquiring great wealth at the misery of others, mainly convict laborers ...6 KB (819 words) - 21:23, 6 May 2024
- John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one ... Throughout most of his 92 years, Dewey was an internationally renowned ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace - Psalms 144:12 ...17 KB (2,398 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy ... At the age of twenty-two, Wang went to Shanghai and became a protégé ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... |name = University of Tokyo |native_name = 東京大学 (Tōkyō ...19 KB (2,825 words) - 22:33, 23 June 2023
- quot; in David Merrick's production of Hello Dolly!—a part first ... She was born in Newport News, Virginia, (also the birth place of legendary ...10 KB (1,596 words) - 07:09, 23 November 2022
- ; also spelled Kweichow) is a province of the People's Republic ... Guizhou sat on the fringe of the Chinese empire until the Ming dynasty ...15 KB (2,085 words) - 08:18, 8 January 2024
- site in Pakistan containing the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takshashila ... centre of learning from the sixth century B.C.E."History of Education ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- to promote the health and well being of children. UNICEF was awarded ... Former United States Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman took control ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 11:42, 3 May 2023
