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Videos

Educating India's large population: Challenges and solutions
Learn about India's efforts to improve its education system, 2009 film.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Neeraj Charurvedi/Dreamstime.com
Hear Australian educators talk about the challenges with gifted children in their early years of formal education
Australian educators discussing issues related to the early education of gifted children.
Video: © University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn about the use of modern technology in monitoring infant brain waves for signs of distress
Infant brain waves being monitored for signs of distress at a neonatal intensive...
Video: University College Cork, Ireland (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn how special education teachers structure their days around preparation
Job description of a special education teacher.
Video: CandidCareer.com (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

a classroom in Brazil
Students and an instructor in a classroom in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
© Joa Souza/Shutterstock.com
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead.
Cornell Capa/Magnum
Hesiod
Hesiod, detail of a mosaic by Monnus, 3rd century; in the Rhenish State Museum, Trier,...
Courtesy of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier, Ger.
Plato
Marble portrait bust of Plato, from an original of the 4th century bce;...
© DeAgostini/SuperStock
Aristotle
Detail of a Roman copy (2nd century bce) of a...
© A. Dagli Orti—De Agostini/Getty Images
Virgil
Virgil (centre) holding a scroll with a quotation from the Aeneid, with...
Courtesy of the Musée Le Bardo, Tunis
Ivan IV
Ivan IV, icon, late 16th century; in the National Museum, Copenhagen.
The National Museum of Denmark, Department of Ethnography
Peter I the Great
Peter I the Great, portrait by Aert de Gelder (1645–1727); in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (object no. SK-A-116)
University of Heidelberg
University of Heidelberg's Old University building, also known as the Domus Wilhelmina,...
© Heidelberger Kongress und Tourismus GmbH
courtyard of the madrasah of Sultan Ḥasan
The courtyard of the madrasah of Sultan Ḥasan, Cairo, 1356–62.
GEKS
Juan Luis Vives
Juan Luis Vives, engraving by Jean-Jacques Boissard from Icones quinquaginta,...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther, oil on panel by Lucas Cranach, 1529; in the Uffizi, Florence.
Photos.com/Getty Images
John Calvin
John Calvin.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-pga-08225)
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery,...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Madame de Maintenon
Madame de Maintenon, detail of a portrait by Pierre Mignard; in the Louvre, Paris.
Giraudon—Art Resource/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
John Locke
The philosopher John Locke, oil on canvas by Herman Verelst, 1689; in the National...
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock.com
August Hermann Francke
August Hermann Francke, engraving.
BBC Hulton Picture Library
illustration of Émile from Émile; or, On Education
Illustration of Émile from Émile; or, On Education (1762), by Jean-Jacques...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, drawing in pastels by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, 1753; in...
Courtesy of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva; photograph, Jean Arlaud
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Wilhelm, Freiherr (baron) von Humboldt, oil painting by F. Kruger.
Bruckmann/Art Resource, New York
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Horace Mann
American educator Horace Mann.
Courtesy of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce, detail of an unfinished painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1828;...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry, detail of a Japanese watercolor, c. 1853; in the Chrysler Museum of...
The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk Newspapers' Art Trust Purchase and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Spark in Memory of their Son Donald, 52.55.2
Francis Parker
Francis Parker.
Courtesy of Chicago History Museum
Margaret Thatcher
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 1983.
AP
Vladimir Lenin; Russian Revolution
Vladimir Lenin addressing a crowd during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
© Photos.com/Getty Images
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin.
© Photos.com/Getty Images
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, 1966.
Eastfoto
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi.
History Archive/REX/Shutterstock.com
Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie, 1967.
AP
William V.S. Tubman
William V.S. Tubman.
Camera Press/Pictorial Parade
Leopold II
Leopold II, portrait bust by Ottavio Giovannozzi, 1846; in the Uffizi, Florence.
Alinari/Art Resource, New York
Max Weber
Max Weber, 1918.
Leif Geiges
Karl Marx
Karl Marx, c. 1870.
From Karl Marx's Oekonomische Lehren, by Karl Kautsky, 1887
Kentucky: African American school, early 1900s
African American school near Henderson, Kentucky, U.S., early 1900s.
National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Page from the Codex Mendoza (begun 1541) depicting Aztec education of boys and girls.
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Students using computers in a classroom.
© BananaStock
The unrewarding role of the public schoolmaster as depicted in an American lithograph...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.