Educators, in a sense, are outstanding educators who have made great contributions to education and have an important impact on educational thought and practice. However, there may be only a few well-known educators. The following is a list of the top ten educators recognized in the world. You can also look at famous educators in China.

1, Confucius

Confucius is the founder of Confucianism. His name is Zhong Ni, and his ancestral home is Qufu. He was a great thinker, politician and educator in ancient China. He advocated benevolence, courtesy and wisdom, put forward the idea of teaching students according to their aptitude, and recorded his words and deeds. The Analects of Confucius is regarded as a Confucian classic.

2.socrates

Socrates, a famous philosopher in ancient Greece, put forward the method of virtue is knowledge and question-and-answer education, which advocated the cultivation of human virtue. Question-and-answer education was also called "midwifery".

3. Plato

Plato was a great philosopher in ancient Greece. His teacher is Socrates, and he is also known as the three sages of Greece with the teacher Socrates and the student Aristotle. Plato is also one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers in the whole western culture.

4. Aristotle

Aristotle was a famous thinker in ancient Greece and one of the great philosophers, scientists and educators in the ancient history of the world. He put forward the theory of soul and attached importance to moral education. He is also known as the most learned figure among ancient Greek philosophers, "Ancient Hegel".

5. Fleppel

Froebel is one of the most important educators in Europe in the19th century and the originator of modern preschool education. His educational thought has played an important role in the development of preschool education in the world.

6. Dewey

Dewey is a famous American philosopher and educator, and one of the founders of functionalism psychology and modern pedagogy. He is a master of pragmatism and put forward the basic principle of "learning by doing".

7. Jan Amos Komensky

Comenius is the founder of modern western educational theory, and the Great Teaching Theory is his masterpiece, which advocates popularizing primary education and adopting class teaching system. He is known as "the master of education" and "the ancestor of educational theory" in modern times.

8. quintilian

Quintilian is the most accomplished educator in Rome, and also a pioneer in greatly developing and perfecting educational methods and ideas in the history of education. He advocates encouraging education, and his masterpiece is The Principle of Eloquence.

9. Locke

Locke is the representative of gentleman's educational thought and is considered as the most influential ideological enlightener. His main works are Government Theory, Human Understanding Theory and Random Talk on Education.

10, Mencius

Mencius is a famous thinker, politician and educator in China, the successor of Confucius' theory and an important representative of Confucianism. His masterpiece Mencius was called "Yasheng" by later generations.