PHILOSOPHER

Helen Parkhurst

1886 - 1973

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Helen Parkhurst (March 8, 1886 – June 1, 1973) was an American educator, author, lecturer, the originator of the Dalton Plan, founder of the Dalton School and host of Child's World with Helen Parkhurst on ABC Television Network. Parkhurst took her cues from developmental psychologist Jean Piaget and education reformers such as John Dewey and Horace Mann, producing a progressive education philosophy emphasizing the development of the "whole child". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helen Parkhurst is the 903rd most popular philosopher (down from 751st in 2019), the 4,363rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,805th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Helen Parkhurst ranks 903 out of 1,267. Before her are Ber Borochov, Wilfrid Sellars, Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Feng Youlan, Vasily Rozanov, and Beatus Rhenanus. After her are Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Tao Hongjing, Ferenc Dávid, Pierre Daniel Huet, Firmin Abauzit, and Tan Sitong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Helen Parkhurst ranks 138. Before her are Saburō Kurusu, Yehuda Ashlag, Fernand Crommelynck, Bertha Krupp, Grigory Neujmin, and Otto von Knobelsdorff. After her are Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Siegfried Sassoon, Takuboku Ishikawa, Max Vasmer, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, and Fred Quimby. Among people deceased in 1973, Helen Parkhurst ranks 127. Before her are Laurens Hammond, Marthe Bibesco, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Jeannette Rankin, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, and Grigori Kozintsev. After her are Nobuko Yoshiya, Bobby Darin, Adolfo Zumelzú, Hilda Geiringer, Walter Krüger, and Aleksandr Ptushko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Parkhurst ranks 4,363 out of 20,380. Before her are Wayne Knight (1955), Barbara Babcock (1937), Rue McClanahan (1934), Tyga (1989), Linda Darnell (1923), and Andre Braugher (1962). After her are Barbara Walters (1929), Sammy Hagar (1947), Mildred Natwick (1905), Jackie Gleason (1916), Robert Lansing (1864), and Richard Hamming (1915).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Helen Parkhurst ranks 39. Before her are William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), Eric Hoffer (1898), James Mark Baldwin (1861), Ted Nelson (1937), Susanne Langer (1895), and Wilfrid Sellars (1912). After her are Stanley Cavell (1926), Sandra Harding (1935), David Lewis (1941), Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945), Ram Dass (1931), and Robert Anton Wilson (1932).

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