Biography Category
1778–1838, English educator. In 1801 he founded a free elementary school, using a type of monitorial system for which he acknowledged his debt to An...
(g l´´ d t´, gô´l –) (KEY) , 1787–1851, American educator of the deaf, b. Philadelphia, grad. Andover Theological Seminary. In England and Fr...
1537?–1583, English soldier, navigator, and explorer; half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh. Knighted (1570) for his service in the campaigns in Irelan...
1844–1931, American educator and political scientist, b. Tennessee. He served in the Union army in the Civil War and after the war graduated from Am...
1866–1942, American educator and philanthropist, b. near Rome, Ga., Ph.D. Univ. of Georgia, 1920. Determined to provide educational opportunities fo...
(shärl m sh l´ äb ´ d l p ´) (KEY) , 1712–89, French pioneer teacher of deaf-mutes. A Jansenist priest, he developed a manual system of commun...