educator | | |
n. (person) | 1. educator, pedagog, pedagogue | someone who educates young people. |
| ~ academic, faculty member, academician | an educator who works at a college or university. |
| ~ lecturer, lector, reader | a public lecturer at certain universities. |
| ~ head teacher, school principal, principal, head | the educator who has executive authority for a school.; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal" |
| ~ professional, professional person | a person engaged in one of the learned professions. |
| ~ schoolmaster | any person (or institution) who acts as an educator. |
| ~ instructor, teacher | a person whose occupation is teaching. |
| ~ bethune, mary mcleod bethune | United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955). |
| ~ braille, 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). |
| ~ carnegie, dale carnegie | United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955). |
| ~ comenius, jan amos komensky, john amos comenius | Czech educational reformer (1592-1670). |
| ~ john dewey, dewey | United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952). |
| ~ friedrich froebel, friedrich wilhelm august froebel, froebel | German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852). |
| ~ gallaudet, thomas hopkins gallaudet | United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851). |
| ~ hopkins, mark hopkins | United States educator and theologian (1802-1887). |
| ~ hutchins, robert maynard hutchins | United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977). |
| ~ laney, lucy craft laney | United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933). |
| ~ abbott lawrence lowell, lowell | United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943). |
| ~ horace mann, mann | United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859). |
| ~ mcguffey, william holmes mcguffey | United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873). |
| ~ maria montesorri, montessori | Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952). |
| ~ daniel patrick moynihan, moynihan | United States politician and educator (1927-2003). |
| ~ james naismith, naismith | United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939). |
| ~ carl orff, orff | German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982). |
| ~ elizabeth palmer peabody, elizabeth peabody, peabody | educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894). |
| ~ pitman, sir isaac pitman | English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897). |
| ~ anne mansfield sullivan, anne sullivan, sullivan | United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936). |
| ~ booker t. washington, booker taliaferro washington, washington | United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915). |
| ~ andrew d. white, andrew dickson white, white | United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918). |
| ~ emma hart willard, willard | United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870). |
| ~ john witherspoon, 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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