lokariototal

Who do you think was the best educator in history, and WHY?

Fereydoon

A tie between Socrates and Nietzsche. This one proposed a new method and followed through it. He focused on making people get their own answers, not the ones in the books, but their own, through discussion. All of his students approved his classes in depoimentes. Socrates, on the other hand, was the father of the western system of the "ideal things". Though he was far less pragmatic, he did show some skill by educating two greats on their own merits: Plato and Xenofonte.

Earl_of_Rochester

For the modern world, the great Richard Feynman.

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Pacific_Victory

My senior History teacher from High School, Mr. Grifo

jehosafats

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher." - Japanese proverb

Pacific_Victory

Any of these folks

The 30 Best Teachers Of All Time

Alexander

Considering the impressive list of students who could claim Plato, Socrates and Aristotle as their teachers, I'd have to say that it's a hard race between those three.

Frank81

I think the throne of the best teacher is disputed on the one side, Aristotle, teacher of Alexander and one the most influential thinker of the western world. On the other side, , teacher of Chandragupta Maurya, a founding mind of the Indian civilization.

Wenge

Harry Griffin, History of Western Civilization Blue Ridge Community College Weyers Cave, Virginia.

PragmaticStatistic

The greatest teacher of all time was not a teacher but a printer, inventor and publisher. It was Johannes Gutenberg. Had it not been for his printing press none of us would know about all those teachers you list and the masses would still be ignorant and uneducated.