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Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich
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......influenced the development of teacher-training methods. Although...respected the individuality of the teacher, Pestalozzi nevertheless felt...practiced. His belief that teacher training should consist of a...Silber, Pestalozzi: The Man and His Work (2d ed. 1974......
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Agee, James
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......Prize), which recounts in poetic prose the tragic impact of a man's death on his wife and family. Agee's other works include...to Father Flye (1962), a collection of letters to a former teacher; Collected Poems (1968); and Collected Short Prose (1969......
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Buddha
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......that he would become either a world ruler or a world teacher; therefore his father, King Suddhodana, who wished...his chariot. He saw on successive excursions an old man, a sick man, a corpse, and a mendicant monk. From the first three......
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Dreiser, Theodore
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......with help from a sympathetic high school teacher, he spent the year 1889–90 at the...success first as the mistress of a wealthy man and then as an actress, horrified its...his greatest work, tells of a poor young man's futile effort to achieve social and......
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McCourt, Frank
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......childhood of grinding poverty in the slums of Limerick and his final escape. He continued his saga in 'Tis (1999) and Teacher Man (2005), and also wrote the Christmas story Angela and the Baby Jesus (2007)....
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Seth, Andrew
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......1898 to meet the conditions of a bequest. He was an influential teacher, and in his writings he examined philosophy through critical...philosophers. He wrote Hegelianism and Personality (1887), Man's Place in the Cosmos (1897), The Idea of God in the Light......
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Socrates
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......him his life. Knowledge of the man and his teachings comes indirectly...Delphi pronounced him the wisest man in Greece. In that speech...also for being the friend and teacher of Alcibiades and Critias...to be identical, so that no man knowingly does wrong. Since......
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Frankel, Charles
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......New York City, grad. Columbia 1937, Ph.D., 1946. A teacher at Columbia since 1939, he became Old Dominion professor of...works include The Faith of Reason (1948); The Case for Modern Man (1956, rev. ed. 1959); The Democratic Prospect (1962......
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Garfield, James Abram
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......After graduation (1856) from Williams College, he became a teacher of ancient languages and literature at the Western Reserve...was a brilliant orator and an able, knowing, and charming man. He had shown little originality or force in his 17 years as......
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Hopkins, Mark (American educator)
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......and moral philosophy until his death, he was renowned as a teacher and administrator. He was ordained in the Congregational Church...Love and Love as a Law (1869), and The Scriptural Idea of Man (1883). See biographical studies by F. Carter (1892) and......