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Mary McLeod Bethune
United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955)
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Louis Braille
French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)
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Dale Carnegie
United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955)
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John Amos Comenius
Czech educational reformer (1592-1670)
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John Dewey
United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)
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Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel
German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852)
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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851)
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Mark Hopkins
United States educator and theologian (1802-1887)
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Robert Maynard Hutchins
United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977)
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Lucy Craft Laney
United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933)
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943)
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Horace Mann
United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)
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William Holmes McGuffey
United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873)
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Maria Montesorri
Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952)
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
United States politician and educator (1927-2003)
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James Naismith
United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939)
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Carl Orff
German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982)
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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894)
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Sir Isaac Pitman
English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897)
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Anne Mansfield Sullivan
United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936)
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Booker Taliaferro Washington
United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)
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Andrew Dickson White
United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
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Emma Hart Willard
United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870)
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John Witherspoon
American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who signed of the Declaration of Independence and was president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794)
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Apostle of Germany
(Roman Catholic Church) Anglo-Saxon missionary who was sent to Frisia and Germany to spread the Christian faith; was martyred in Frisia (680-754)
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David Livingstone
Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873)
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John Thomas Scopes
Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)
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Marcus Whitman
United States frontier missionary who established a post in Oregon where Christianity and schooling and medicine were available to Native Americans (1802-1847)
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Saint Francis Xavier
Spanish missionary and Jesuit who establish missionaries in Japan and Ceylon and the East Indies (1506-1552)
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academic, academician, faculty member
an educator who works at a college or university
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lector, lecturer, reader
a public lecturer at certain universities
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head, head teacher, principal, school principal
the educator who has executive authority for a school
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schoolmaster
any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
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instructor, teacher
a person whose occupation is teaching
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art teacher
someone who teaches art
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Bahai
a teacher of or believer in Bahaism
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catechist
one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism)
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chancellor
the honorary or titular head of a university
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coach, private instructor, tutor
a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)
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dance master, dancing-master
a professional teacher of dancing
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demonstrator
a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught
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docent
a teacher at some universities
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English professor, English teacher
someone who teaches English
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French teacher
someone who teaches French
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governess
a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home)
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headmaster, master, schoolmaster
presiding officer of a school
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headmistress
a woman headmaster
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instructress
a woman instructor
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math teacher, mathematics teacher
someone who teaches mathematics
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missionary
someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program
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music teacher
someone who teaches music
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don, preceptor
teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)
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prof, professor
someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university
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reading teacher
someone who teaches students to read
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riding master
someone who teaches horsemanship
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school teacher, schoolteacher
a teacher in a school below the college level
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science teacher
someone who teaches science
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section man
someone who teaches a section of a large college course
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teaching fellow
a graduate student with teaching responsibilities