Famous Educators

• Bethune, Mary McLeod

  The founder of the National Council for Negro Women

• Bloom, Harold

  The literary critic who wrote 1973’s The Anxiety of Influence

• Braille, Louis

  Inventor of the raised-point writing system for the blind

• Dewey, John

  Pragmatist educator of the early 20th century

• Dyson, Michael Eric

  The author of the 2007 book Know What I Mean: Reflections on Hip-Hop

• Faust, Drew Gilpin

  The first woman president of Harvard University

• Giovanni, Nikki

  The poet who wrote "Ego-Tripping"

• Locke, Alain LeRoy

  The African-American editor called "the father of the Harlem Renaissance"

• Mann, Horace

  The "Father of American Education"

• McAuliffe, Christa

  The teacher who died in the Challenger explosion

• Montessori, Maria

  The founder of Montessori schools

• Paglia, Camille

  The professor-author of 1990’s Sexual Personae

• Stanley, Flat

  Children's globetrotting fictional character

• Sullivan, Anne

  Helen Keller's tutor

• Tenshin, Okakura

  Author of The Book of Tea

• Washington, Booker T.

  The black educator who started the Tuskegee Institute

• West, Cornel

   The African American Studies professor who wrote Race Matters

See: Index by Occupation