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Immanuel Kant
Kant wrote Critique of Pure Reason. The purpose of it was to explain how experience and reason interact in thought and understanding. Understanding and reason can know apart from experience. This revolutionary proposal means that the mind organizes our experiences into the way the world appears and the way that we think about the world. Any experience is placed into one of these categories so that it can be understood. -
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft opened up her own school for girls at Newington Green. This did not last long and she finally became a teacher to the children of a very high class family on their estate in Ireland. She was an advocate for women education. -
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Women
At the Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth delivered what is now recognized as one of the most famous advocate and women’s rights speeches in American history known as, Ain’t I a Woman? She continued to speak out for the rights of African Americans and women during and after the Civil War. -
Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Diverse intellectual antecedents are revealed in Weber’s work. He made the distinction between Kant's practical and pure reason in his analysis of the relation between knowledge and action. Hegel’s distinction between state and society had set a pattern for the nineteen century. -
John Keynes
Keynes book, General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, published in 1936, articulated what would later become known as the foundation for modern macroeconomics. It challenged the established the majority opinion of the time, which was that an economy will naturally restore itself to full employment after a period of downturn. -
Derrick Bell
Bell became the first African American to become a tenured professor at Harvard Law School; there he established a course in civil rights law and wrote Race, Racism and American Law, which today is a standard textbook in law schools around the country. -
U.S. Constitution
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriquez. The U.S. Supreme Court held that education is not a "fundamental right" under the U.S. Constitution. The founding fathers left it to the states to decide whether to provide an education or not and what level education. -
Milton Friedmas
Milton Friedman and his wife Rose made the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, which was the nation’s only organization dedicated to promoting their concept of educational choice. “Choice” is the ed-reform movement’s way of saying privatization. All the tools used to create choice—vouchers, charter schools, tax credits for private school tuition, tax credits for individuals and businesses that create private school scholarships.