67 events with tag "education"
387 BC
ID: 275
Plato founds the Academy in Athens - first institution of higher learning in Western world, lasts 900 years
ID: 275
150
ID: 4841
Justin opens Christian philosophy school in Rome - First to systematically harmonize Greek philosophy with Christian faith
ID: 4841
735
ID: 4073
Alcuin born in Northumbria - near York, will become greatest scholar of his age
ID: 4073
750
ID: 4074
Alcuin enters York cathedral school - studies under Aelbert, accesses finest library in Western Europe
ID: 4074
789
ID: 2901
Admonitio Generalis - Charlemagne orders schools in every monastery and bishopric, Alcuin leads palace school
ID: 2901
804
ID: 4096
Alcuin's works preserved - 50+ treatises on theology, education, biblical commentary, 300+ poems
ID: 4096
804
ID: 4097
Alcuin's impact assessed - saved classical learning, created educational system for medieval Europe
ID: 4097
899
ID: 2558
October 26, 899
Death of Alfred the Great - only English king called 'Great', saved England, promoted learning and law
ID: 2558
1059
ID: 3741
Lanfranc at Bec - Italian scholar makes Norman monastery leading center of learning in Europe
ID: 3741
1080
ID: 5464
Cluny's library becomes one of largest in Europe with over 570 manuscripts, making it major center of learning and theological study
ID: 5464
1088
ID: 2130
University of Bologna founded - Irnerius begins teaching Roman law from newly discovered Digest of Justinian, birth of legal science in Western Europe
ID: 2130
1134
ID: 187
Cathedral school of Notre-Dame Paris emerging as intellectual center - will become University of Paris
ID: 187
1179
ID: 2143
Third Lateran Council requires cathedral schools - legal education spreads beyond Bologna as Church mandates schools at every cathedral
ID: 2143
1200
ID: 5240
Philip Augustus charters University of Paris - grants privileges to students and masters, creates greatest medieval university
ID: 5240
1217
ID: 40
University of Cambridge founded by scholars fleeing Oxford
ID: 40
1229
ID: 42
University of Toulouse founded to combat Cathar heresy through education
ID: 42
1245
ID: 11
Aquinas begins studying under Albert the Great - called 'Dumb Ox' by fellow students
ID: 11
1348
ID: 64
University of Prague founded - first university in Central Europe
ID: 64
1437
ID: 2485
Henry VI begins personal rule - weak, pious king interested only in education and religion, founds Eton and King's College
ID: 2485
1509
ID: 5470
Paracelsus begins studies at University of Basel at age 16, later claiming to have received doctorate in medicine
ID: 5470
1534
ID: 3537
St. Angela Merici founds Ursulines - first teaching order of women - 'Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family'
ID: 3537
1551
ID: 3489
Jesuit Colleges established across Europe (1551-1556) - Messina, Palermo, Rome, German College - Free education attracts noble and merchant sons - Protestant observer: 'They steal our children's minds with sweetness'
ID: 3489
1580
ID: 3509
Peak Jesuit influence in Counter-Reformation (1580s-1590s) - Recover Poland, parts of Germany - Protestant alarm: 'They have stolen our method of education and improved it'
ID: 3509
1597
ID: 3521
St. Peter Canisius dies - wrote first German catechism - Reconverted much of Germany through education - 'If you have much, give much; if little, give little, but give with heart'
ID: 3521
1600
ID: 3445
St. Joseph Calasanz founds Piarists - free education for poor - 'If from childhood a child is instructed in religion and letters, one can hope for a happy life'
ID: 3445
1603
ID: 3447
Jesuit Superior General reports 13,000 members worldwide - 550 colleges and universities - Confessors to most Catholic princes
ID: 3447
1700
ID: 469
St. John Baptist de La Salle founds teaching method for Christian Brothers to educate poor, countering Enlightenment elitism
ID: 469
1701
ID: 2239
Yale College charter - corporation for education with self-perpetuating board, academic corporation model
ID: 2239
1717
ID: 480
Frederick William I makes education compulsory in Prussia with Pietist pedagogy: 'breaking of natural will is primary purpose'
ID: 480
1723
ID: 487
Francke's schools have 2,000+ students with strict schedule: 'Breaking the will' as central pedagogical principle
ID: 487
1750
ID: 535
Height of Pietist control in Prussia - every government position requires Halle connections
ID: 535
1762
ID: 564
May 1762
Rousseau's Emile - revolutionary educational treatise, child isolated from society, manipulated by tutor
ID: 564
1763
ID: 566
General School Regulations after Seven Years' War intensify Pietist education with conduct books
ID: 566
1794
ID: 655
Ecole Polytechnique founded Paris - first technical university requiring advanced mathematics for engineers
ID: 655
1796
ID: 660
St. Julie Billiart paralyzed 22 years has vision: 'I need victims for My Church' - founds Notre Dame Sisters
ID: 660
1800
ID: 673
St. Madeleine Sophie Barat age 20 founds Sacred Heart Society after vision - will establish 100+ schools
ID: 673
1803
ID: 682
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton converts to Catholicism - will found American Catholic education system
ID: 682
1810
ID: 5576
Prussian War Academy (Kriegsakademie) founded in Berlin - creates professional general staff officer corps with scientific military education
ID: 5576
1840
ID: 820
Golden Age of American Learning - 93-100% complex literacy without compulsory schooling
ID: 820
1840
ID: 821
Massachusetts School Committee under Horace Mann addresses family deterioration from industrialization
ID: 821
1852
ID: 891
Massachusetts implements first compulsory education law
ID: 891
1862
ID: 932
Morrill Act established land-grant colleges
ID: 932
1874
ID: 4585
Max Planck enters University of Munich at age 16 - studies physics under Philipp von Jolly who advises against physics career
ID: 4585
1895
ID: 1120
NEA declared evolution should be taught as fact, not theory
ID: 1120
1906
ID: 1159
Manhattan schools performed tonsillectomies on children without parental consent
ID: 1159
1908
ID: 1175
Henry Holt: 'There was too much enterprise... Excessive overproduction of brains is the root cause of the overproduction of everything else.'
ID: 1175
1911
ID: 1201
National press attacked academic schooling, demanding quantifiable proof of value
ID: 1201
1912
ID: 1212
St. Maximilian Kolbe sent to Rome, attends Pontifical Gregorian University, earns doctorates in philosophy (1915) and theology (1919/1922)
ID: 1212
1916
ID: 1237
Woodrow Wilson: 'We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class... to forgo the privilege of a liberal education'
ID: 1237
1917
ID: 1246
The Education Trust - Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harvard, Stanford collaborate to impose 'the ideal of subordination'
ID: 1246
1917
ID: 1247
Jewish student riots in NYC against Gary Plan destroyed reform Mayor John Purroy Mitchel's career
ID: 1247
1918
ID: 1263
Alexander Inglis' Principles of Secondary Education reveals six functions of schooling for social control
ID: 1263
1930
ID: 1368
144,102 local school boards (1 in 63 adults involved)
ID: 1368
1931
ID: 1389
John Childs (Columbia Teachers College): '[We] reject completely the hypothesis of choice. We consider the traditional doctrine of free-will to be untenable'
ID: 1389
1936
ID: 1444
American Accounting Association founded to advance accounting education and research in universities
ID: 1444
1942
ID: 1520
WWII military testing showed 96% literacy rate among inductees (1942-1944)
ID: 1520
1947
ID: 1582
Everson v. Board of Education - Supreme Court 'pitched God out of school on His ear entirely'
ID: 1582
1949
ID: 1617
Max Otto: Businessmen pulled off philosophical revolution 'under everybody's nose'
ID: 1617
1964
ID: 4318
May 1964
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC at Dartmouth - simple programming language for students
ID: 4318
1964
ID: 4418
May 1964
Kemeny and Kurtz create BASIC at Dartmouth - Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code for student use
ID: 4418
1967
ID: 1831
Complete restructuring of teacher training through behavioral science projects begins (continues to 1974)
ID: 1831
1967
ID: 4421
Seymour Papert creates Logo at MIT - educational language with turtle graphics, teaches programming to children
ID: 4421
1970
ID: 4423
Niklaus Wirth publishes Pascal - structured programming language for education, widely adopted in universities
ID: 4423
1999
ID: 3037
75.5 million Americans (29% of population) directly involved in education system
ID: 3037
2013
ID: 324
Peter Whidden teaches himself programming from YouTube in high school
ID: 324
2019
ID: 3321
BBC teaches children there are '100, if not more' gender options
ID: 3321
2024
ID: 358
Mote sets goal to make biology and AI accessible like other games did for their domains
ID: 358