Curated category
Philosophers of education
- PlatoPlato was born between 428 and 423 BC into an aristocratic Athenian family. His mother Perictione descended from Solon, the statesman credited with laying…
- AristotleAristotle was born in 384 BC in the city of Stagira, located about 55 kilometers east of modern-day Thessaloniki. His father Nicomachus served as the…
- Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was born on the 28th of June 1712 in the Republic of Geneva. His mother Suzanne Bernard died nine days after his birth from puerperal…
- Leo TolstoyCount Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy entered the world at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate located southwest of Tula and south of Moscow.
- Karl MarxKarl Marx entered the world on the 5th of May 1818 at Brückengasse 664 in Trier, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. His father Heinrich Marx worked as a…
- Lev VygotskyLev Semyonovich Vygotsky was born on the 17th of November 1896 in Orsha, a town within the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire.
- John LockeOn the 29th of August in the year of our Lord 1632, a boy named John Locke was born in the village of Wrington, Somerset.
- Baruch SpinozaOn the 24th of November 1632, a boy named Baruch Espinoza was born into a house on the Houtgracht canal. This street sat on an artificial island called the…
- SocratesSocrates did not write a single line of text. All knowledge about him comes from the posthumous accounts of others, primarily his students Plato and…
- MenciusMeng Ke arrived in the state of Zou during a time when China was fracturing into warring factions. His father Meng Ji died while the boy was still very…
- ConfuciusConfucius was born on the 28th of September 551 BCE in the town of Zou. This location sits within modern Qufu, Shandong province.
- Giovanni Pico della MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola entered the world on the 24th of February 1463 within the Castle of Mirandola, a small autonomous county in Emilia near Modena.