This collection of essays targets universities, social science research institutes, teacher training colleges, and those who lecture and carry out research on the history of ideas and of education. It is the first volume in a series that presents, in English, French, and Spanish, a comprehensive view of great educators of every age and culture. Each essay includes two bibliographies, one that lists the works actually concerned with education and the other on the actual thinker. The essays are as follows: "Alain" (Philipe Foray), "Aristotle" (Charles Hummel), "Avicenna" (Abd al-Rahman Al-Naqib), "Andres Bello" (Gregorio Weinberg), "Bruno Bettelheim" (Karen Zelan), "Alfred Binet" (Rene Zazzo), "Pavel Petrovich Blonsky" (Mihail Gerasimovich Danilchenko), "Boutros Al-Boustani" (Khalil Abou Rjaili), "Martin Buber" (Kalman Yaron), "Cai Yuanpei" (Zhang Lizhong), "Edouard Claparede" (Danial Hameline), "Jan Amos Comenius" (Jean Piaget), "Condorcet" (Bernard Jolibert), "Confucius" (Yang Huanyin), "Roger Cousinet" (Louis Raillon), "Jan Wladyslaw Dawid" (Czeslaw Kupisiewicz), "Jean-Ovide Decroly" (Francine Dubreucq), "John Dewey" (Robert B. Westbrook), "Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg" (Karl-Heinz Gunther), "Emile Durkheim" (Jean-Claude Filloux), "Jozsef Eotvos" (Istvan Meszaros), "Erasmus" (Jean-Claude Margolin), "Al-Farabi" (Ammar Al-Talbi), "Adolphe Ferriere" (Daniel Hameline), "Celestin Freinet" (Louis Legrand), and an afterword (Juan Carlos Tedesco). (SM)