Asia: India. China

Greek and Roman antiquity: Plata. Aristotle. Plutarch. Quintilian.

Ancient and medieval Christianity: The Bible. Tatian. Saint Augustine. Saint Basil. Saint Jerome. Hrabanus Maurus. John Gerson.

Islam: Al-Ghazali. Ibn Khaldoun.

The humanist evolution: Aenea Silvio. Martin Luther. Desiderius Erasmus. The Jesuit order. Michel de Montaigne.

The new method of thinking; Francis Bacon. René Descartes. Galileo Galilei.

The development of modern education: Johann Amos Comenius. Sir William Petty. John Locke. Jean Jacques Rousseau. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Johann Friedrich Herbart. Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel. Ralph Waldo Emerson.