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John Taylor Gatto (December 15, 1935 [3] – October 25, 2018 [4]) was an American author and school teacher. After teaching for nearly 30 years he authored several books on modern education , criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences.
William John Marsh (June 24, 1880 – February 1, 1971) was an American composer, organist, choir director, and educator most notable for composing "Texas, Our Texas," the official state song. He was a longtime figure in the Dallas–Fort Worth arts community, working as a composer, choir director, music professor, and music critic.
William James is considered to be the founder of functional psychology. But he would not consider himself as a functionalist, nor did he truly like the way science divided itself into schools. John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, Harvey A. Carr, and especially James Rowland Angell were the main proponents of functionalism at the University of Chicago.
Boston Latin School was founded in 1635. [9] Boston Latin School was not funded by tax dollars in its early days, however. On January 1, 1644, by unanimous vote, Dedham, Massachusetts authorized the first U.S. taxpayer-funded public school; "the seed of American education." [10]
[33] [34] Some of Athens' greatest schools of higher education included the Lyceum (the so-called Peripatetic school founded by Aristotle of Stageira) and the Platonic Academy (founded by Plato of Athens). The education system of the wealthy ancient Greeks is also called Paideia. In the subsequent Roman empire, Greek was the primary language of ...
The Blackwell School, originally constructed in 1909, was a segregated elementary and junior high school for Latino students in Marfa, Texas. After passage of the Blackwell School National ...
Albert Sidney Johnston High School served as a comprehensive, coeducational high school in the Austin Independent School District from 1960 to 2008. Located in Austin, Texas, the school was named after General Albert Sidney Johnston, who served as Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas and as a brigadier general for the Texian Army of the Republic of Texas, the United States Army, and the ...
John Holt: The Philosophy of Unschooling. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-18725-5. Meighan, Roland (2007). John Holt: Continuum Library of Educational Thought. Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-8404-8. Miller, Ron (2002). The Legacy of John Holt, ch. 3 of Free Schools, Free People: Education and Democracy after the 1960s. New York: SUNY Press.