Victorino (1378— 1446) was a famous Italian humanist educator in the early Renaissance. 1423, at the invitation of the Duke of Montoya, Vitorino opened a court school, which he called "Happy House". Victorino thinks that a good environment is conducive to the harmonious development of students' body and mind, so he sets the school in a beautiful environment. He believes that the purpose of education is to cultivate people with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique, so the school pays attention to the universal implementation of intellectual education, moral education, physical education and aesthetic education; He believes that education should be conducive to the development of children's personality, so teachers should attach importance to students' interests and use intuition and practice more in teaching; He arranged a wide range of courses for students, with classical writing and classical works as the core, as well as mathematics and natural subjects. The guiding ideology of school education in Victoriano is to give consideration to physical and mental development, pay equal attention to moral education and intellectual education, and combine the development of children's personality and personality with the cultivation of their sense of political and social responsibility. During the Renaissance, Vitorino was the first to put the ideal of humanistic education into practice, so he was called "the teacher of the first new school".
Rabelais (1494- 1592) and Montaigne (1533- 1592) were famous French humanist writers in the 6th century. Through their own literary works, they strongly criticized the old-style education. Rabelais's masterpiece Biography of the Giant tells the story of a prince, Gao Kangda, who became obedient and stupid under the education of scholastic philosophers, and became a wise, brave and healthy giant through the education of humanists. In Biography of the Giant, rabelais satirized the scholasticism education in the Middle Ages, and advocated respecting children's personality, inspiring and inducing, and attaching importance to children's interest and thirst for knowledge. His educational goal is to cultivate new people with knowledge, liveliness, health and high morality. Meng Dan's masterpiece is a collection of essays, in which the theory of children's education fully reflects his educational view. Meng Dan believes that the purpose of education is to cultivate aristocratic gentlemen who are familiar with the world, good at handling public and private life and mastering the art of life. He strongly criticized the scholastic philosophy style of study and proposed that education should focus on cultivating children's thinking, judgment and understanding abilities; In teaching, we should pay attention to inspiration, develop children's automaticity and curiosity, and let them acquire knowledge from observation and activities; Pay attention to the close connection between intellectual education and physical education, so that children can develop in an all-round way.
Lasmo (1469— 1536) was one of the most internationally influential humanists from the end of 15 to the beginning of 16. Lasmo attached importance to the role of education, and thought that only education can give people knowledge and cultivate people's good behavior and noble thoughts. He initially discussed some educational theoretical problems, put forward that the three elements of education are nature (children's endowment), teaching and practice, and correctly pointed out the leading role of the latter two; Lasmo advocated the balanced development of children's body and mind and attached importance to the role of sports. In intellectual education, Lasmo attached importance to the study of classical literature and literature, and put forward some specific teaching suggestions. In teaching methods, he pays special attention to cultivating children's memory and advocates the use of intuitive teaching AIDS for teaching; Lasmo personally engaged in teaching, published many educational papers and compiled Latin textbooks. These educational practices have promoted the development of secondary education in Europe and strengthened the influence of humanism.
Thomas Moore (1478-1535) was an outstanding humanist thinker in the English Renaissance and the first utopian socialist in the West. Moore's Utopia is one of the representative works of utopian socialism, and the description of education in the book reflects his educational view. Moore advocates universal education and believes that men and women enjoy equal educational rights; He advocated Greek and Roman literature and philosophy and arranged teaching subjects for ordinary schools, including reading, writing, calculation, geometry, astronomy, music, dialectics and nature, among which natural science played a particularly prominent role. He attached importance to the labor education for children and proposed to develop adult education. In teaching, Moore advocates the extensive use of intuitive methods. Although Moore's educational thought is just a fantasy and has not been put into practice, its historical progress is obvious.