From 1993 to 2006, PROSPECTS published a series of profiles of 100 famous educators (including philosophers, statesmen, politicians, journalists, psychologists, poets, men of religion) from around of the world who have left their mark on educational thought.
Paper copy: Thinkers on Education. Four volumes (sold together)
Studies in Comparative Education series
30,50 €; 1600 p.; Format: 24 x 17 cm; Publ: 1997, ISBN: 92-3-103398-0
Available from: UNESCO Publishing
The IBE offers access to the profiles above, together with the profiles which have been published in subsequent issues of PROSPECTS and are available in English, French and Spanish.
| Name of Educator |
| Adiseshiah, Malcolm | ||
| Alain | ||
| Aristotle | ||
| Aurobindo, (Sri) | ||
| Avicenna (Ibn Sina) | ||
| Beeby, Clarence Edward | ||
| Bello, Andrés | ||
| Bernstein, Basil | ||
| Bettelheim, Bruno | ||
| Binet, Alfred | ||
| Bloom, Benjamin | ||
| Blonsky, Pavel Petrovich | ||
| al-Boustani, Boutros | ||
| Brunsvick Yves | ||
| Buber, Martin | ||
| Cai Yuanpei | ||
| Calasanz, Joseph | ||
| Claparède, Edouard | ||
| Comenius, Jan Amos | ||
| Comte, Auguste | ||
| Condorcet | ||
| Confucius | ||
| Cousinet, Roger | ||
| Dawid, Jan Wladyslaw | ||
| Debesse, Maurice | ||
| Decroly, Jean-Ovide | ||
| Dewey, John | ||
| Diesterweg, Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm | ||
| Dolto, Françoise | ||
| Durkheim, Emile | ||
| Eötvös, József | ||
| Erasmus | ||
| Fafunwa, Aliu Babtunde | ||
| al-Farabi | ||
| Ferrière, Adolphe | ||
| Freinet, Célestin | ||
| Freire, Paulo | ||
| Freud, Sigmund | ||
| Fröbel, Friedrich | ||
| Fukuzawa, Yukichi | ||
| Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | ||
| al-Ghazali | ||
| Giner de los Ríos, Francisco | ||
| Glinos, Dimitri | ||
| Goodman, Paul | ||
| Gramsci, Antonio | ||
| Grundtvig, N.F.S. | ||
| Grzegorzewska, Maria | ||
| Hegel, Georg | ||
| ENG FRE | Herbart, Johann Friedrich | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Hesselgren, Kerstin | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Humboldt, Wilhelm von | |
| ENG FRE | Husén, Torsten | |
| ENG | Hussein, Taha | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Illich, Ivan | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Jaspers, Karl | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Jovellanos, Gaspar Melchor de | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Jullien de Paris, Marc-Antoine | |
| ENG FRE | Kandel, Isaac Leon | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Kant, Immanuel | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Kerschensteiner, Georg | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Key, Ellen | |
| ENG FRE | Ibn Khaldun | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Kilpatrick, William Heard | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Ki-Zerbo, Joseph | |
| ENG FRE | Kold, Christen Mikkelsen | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Korczak, Janusz | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Krishnamurti, J. | |
| ENG FRE | Krupskaya, Nadezhda Konstantinovna | |
| ENG FRE | Locke, John | |
| ENG FRE | Makarenko, Anton | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Mann Jonathan | |
| ENG SPA | Manso, Juana P. | |
| ENG FRE | Mao Zedong | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Martí, José | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Mead, Margaret | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Melanchthon, Philipp | |
| ENG FRE | Mencius | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Mercante, Victor | |
| ENG FRE | Miskawayh | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Montaigne | |
| ENG FRE | Montessori, Maria | |
| ENG FRE SPA | More, Thomas | |
| ENG FRE | Naik, J.P. | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Neill, Alexander Sutherland | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Niemeyer, August Hermann | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Nightingale, Florence | |
| ENG FRE | Noikov, Peter | |
| ENG FRE | Nyerere, Julius Kambarage | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Obara, Kuniyoshi | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Ortega y Gasset, José | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Owen, Robert | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Piaget, Jean | |
| ENG FRE | Plato | |
| ENG FRE | Priestley, Joseph | |
| ENG FRE | al-Qabbani, Isma'il | |
| ENG FRE | Read, Herbert | |
| ENG FRE | Rogers, Carl | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Rúbies I Garrofé, Maria | |
| ENG FRE | Rudenschöld, Torsten | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Sadler, Michael Ernest | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Salomon, Otto | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Sérgio, António | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Skinner, B.F. | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Spencer, Herbert | |
| ENG FRE | Steiner, Rudolf | |
| FRE | Suchodolski, Bogdan | |
| FRE | Sun Yat-Sen | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Taba, Hilda | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Tagore, Rabindranath | |
| FRE SPA | al-Tahtawi, Rifa'a | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Teixeira, Anísio | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Tolstoy, Leo | |
| ENG FRE | Trefort, Agoston | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Trstenjak, Davorin | |
| ENG | Ushinsky, Konstantin Dmitrievitch | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Uznadze, Dimitry | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Varela, José Pedro | |
| ENG FRE | Vasconcelos, José | |
| ENG FRE | Vico, Giambattista | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Vivekananda Swami | |
| ENG FRE | Vives, Juan Luis | |
| ENG FRE SPA | Vygotsky, Lev Semionovich | |
| ENG FRE | Wallon, Henri | |
