1. Chapter 5 Pioneers in Education Viewing recommendations for Windows: Use the Arial TrueType font and set your screen area to at least 800 by 600 pixels with Colors set to Hi Color (16 bit). Viewing recommendations for Macintosh: Use the Arial TrueType font and set your monitor resolution to at least 800 by 600 pixels with Color Depth set to thousands of colors

2. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company5–2 Key Accomplishments of Educational Pioneers (Part 1) Comenius: First picture book for learning, the Orbis Sensualum Pictus, or The Visible World in Pictures John Locke: Introduced the concept of a child’s mind as a tabula rasa, or blank slate

3. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company5–3 Key Accomplishments of Educational Pioneers (Part 2) Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Revolted against the theory of child depravity, that children are inherently bad. Contended in Emile, that children, instead, are ‘noble savages,’ until corrupted by society. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: The object lesson, a way to encourage Rousseau’s “natural education” for children in groups.

4. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company5–4 Key Accomplishments of Educational Pioneers (Part 3) Friedrich Froebel: Kindergarten Herbert Spencer: Utilitarian education, emphasizing practical outcomes John Dewey: Progressive education, emphasizing problem solving Jane Addams: Socialized education, with emphasis on responding to student diversity

5. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company5–5 Key Accomplishments of Educational Pioneers (Part 4) Maria Montessori: Montessori education, structuring the environment to accommodate children’s natural desire to work at learning Piaget: Developmentally-appropriate education, based on children’s stage of cognitive development