World Great Educationists

Education is a vast discipline, the process of which starts from the very outset of life and ends with the end of life. The Egyptians and Sumerians founded the very first schools in about 3000 BC. Thereafter, Plato founded a school of philosophy, called, the Academy in about 387 BC. In the eighteenth century the enlightenment or the age of reason brought new disciplines and teaching methods. State education began in the early nineteenth century and in 1841, froebel started the first kindergarten and so on. Similarly, Plato, Aristotle, Avicenna, Sir Syed, Abul Kalam Azad et al are those geniuses whose names are written with golden letters in the pages of history. All of them contributed their energies in various ways. They not only structured the syllabi but also formulated the policies in order to carry the light of education in the remotest rural areas. They also chalked out programmes for the training of teachers to make them abreast of the developments taking place in the world of education. Present work is a treatise on the lives, struggles, and contributions of the great educationists of the world. It would, hopefully, be of immense interest and inspiration for all the scholars, students, academics, researchers and the general readers alike.