Biography Category
(pou´l fr r´) (KEY) , 1921–97, Brazilian educator. After his exile from Brazil following the military coup in 1964, Freire taught in Chile and wa...
1887–1940, American editor and educator, b. Queen City, Mo., grad. Northwestern Univ., 1912. He was assistant to the president of Northwestern Univ....
(fr ´b l, fr ´–, Ger. fr ´dr kh v l´h lm ou´g st frö´b l) (KEY) , 1782–1852, German educator and founder of the kindergarten system. He had...
1866–1959, American educator, b. Louisville, Ky., grad. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1886. After 19 years as a secondary school teacher and principal, he to...
1792–1839, American clergyman and educator, b. Brattleboro, Vt. Ordained a Methodist minister in 1818, he rapidly became a leader of that denominati...
1849–1945, English electrical engineer. He was a leader in the development of electric lighting, the telephone, and wireless telegraphy in England a...