Friedrich Froebel
Can you imagine the life before kindergarten? Young children were made to work in factories and mines; with no birthday celebrations at all, children were considered as adults by the age of seven. Then came man named Friedrich Froebel and invented what we know as the kindergarten today.Friedrich Froebel was a German educator who laid stress on pre-school education. He was the founder of the kindergarten and was also entitled to be one of the most powerful educational reformers of the 19th century.
John Amos Comenius
John Comenius was a Czech educator who was the discoverer of practical education, which is the most remarkable contribution to the education imparted at![John Amos Comenius Comenius](https://tv-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com/a/wp-content/uploads/comenius.jpg)
He was the first educator to discover and implement the usage of pictures in textbooks and also perceived it as a universal concept of education. He believed that education should originate in the earliest days of adolescence and continue entire lifetime.
Comenius also believed that every child--boy or girl, rich or poor, skillful or mentally obstructed--was rightful to full education. For him, every educational limitation was a prime hindrance in mankind's progress. As a consequence, he took a stand to eliminate these limitations by writing a number of excellent textbooks.
Anne Sullivan
Anne Sullivan was an American teacher and the lady who took an extremely impaired girl named “Helen Keller” from an abnormal condition to graduation from the Radcliffe College. Helen became the first deaf-blind person to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree.Tormented by the eye diseases which caused her to undergo many medical operations at the age of 16, she joined a school for the blind and completed her graduation in 1886. After some of her sight had recovered, Sullivan pursued the formidable task of teaching a child who was unable to see, hear, or speak. Through her miraculous innovation and the potential of the child, she was able to teach by using a type of sign language wherein she used to "write" onto that child's palm.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was a great Indian educator and also the first Vice President and second President of India. He was a great philosopher and was a famous teacher.![Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Radhakrishnan](https://tv-wordpress.s3.amazonaws.com/a/wp-content/uploads/1975_-_Radhakrishnan.jpg)
Savitribai Phule
Savitribai Phule was the first female teacher of the first women’s school in India and is also regarded to be the founder of the modern Marathi poetry. She is one of the incredible personalities who struggled against the autocracy of castes and other social evils prevailing in the early India.With the support of her husband and her profound determination, she initiated the noble act of opening a school for untouchable girls at the time when even talking of untouchables was considered as impure. When others were reluctant to offer water to the thirsty untouchables, Savitribai and her husband got a well dig in their own house to serve water to the untouchables.