Koyekjon Mohan Sikshabid O Siksha Somajtattwabid

great Educationists

1.Plato (429-347 BC)

Author of the Republic and progenitor of Public education

2.John Amos Comenius (1592-1670)

Representative of the Realistic movement in education..

3.Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Father of Child-centric education

4.Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827)

Pioneer of Psychological trend in education

5.Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841)

Originator of the Formal steps in education

6.Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (1782-1852)

Creator of the Kindergarten

7.Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

Pioneer of Scientific tendency in education

8.John Dewey (1859 1952)

Exponent of the Social Ideal in education

9.Madame Maria Montessori (1870 1952)

Mother of children s House

10.Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Exponent of the acquisition of the art of utilization of knowledge

11.Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Protagonist of World peace and Internationalism in education

12.Jean Piaget (1896-1980)

The Great Pioneer of the Constructivist Theroy of Knowing

13.Paulo Freire (1921-1997)

Originator of Revolutionary Liberatory education

14.Ivan Illich (1926-2002)

Exponent of Radical educational thought of De-schooling

15.Charles Wedemeyer (1911-1999)

Protagonist of Radical thought of Independent study

16.Raja Rammohan Roy (1774-1833)

Architect of Progressive education in India

17.Iswarchandra Vidyasagar (1820-1891)

A Reformer in education through social reform

18.Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Herald of the National Ideal in education

19.Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)

Prophet of the Humanitarian Ideal in Education

20.Sir Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay (1864-1924)

The architect of progressive education

21.Sister Nivedita (1867-1911)

Protagonist of Women s education

22.Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Progenitor of Basic education

23. Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)

Apostle of Integral education

24.Sarvapalli Radha Krishnan (1888-1975)

Protagonist of the spiritual Ideal in education

25.Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

Protagonist of religious ideal in education

(Educational Sociologists)

1.karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883)

The protagonist of Historical Dialectical Materialism

2.Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)

The founder of Social solidarity

3.Talcott Parsons (1902-1979)

Exponent of Social Action Theory

4.Robert K Merton (1910-2003)

Pioneer of Middle Range Theory in Sociology

5.Benoy Kumar Sarkar (1887-1949)

The exponent of the positive background of Hindu Sociology

6.Radhakamal Mukherjee (1889-1968)

The Protagonist of 'The Theory of Social values'

7.Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1893-1983)

The precursor of Indology in Indian Sociology

8.Dhurjati Prasad Mukherjee (1894-1961)

Herald of Experimental Sociology

9. M N Srinivas (1916-1999)

The Protagonist of the concepts of Sanskritization and Westernization in the social change of India.