English > educator: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who educates young people. |
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| Synonyms | pedagogue, pedagog |
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| Instances | Bethune, Mary McLeod Bethune | United States educator who worked to improve race relations / relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955) |
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| Braille, Louis Braille | French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852) |
| Carnegie, Dale Carnegie | United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955) |
| Comenius, John Amos Comenius, Jan Amos Komensky | Czech educational reformer (1592-1670) |
| Dewey, John Dewey | United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952) |
| Froebel, Friedrich Froebel, Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel | German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852) |
| Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet | United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851) |
| Hopkins, Mark Hopkins | United States educator and theologian (1802-1887) |
| Hutchins, Robert Maynard Hutchins | United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977) |
| Laney, Lucy Craft Laney | United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933) |
| Lowell, Abbott Lawrence Lowell | United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943) |
| Mann, Horace Mann | United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859) |
| McGuffey, William Holmes McGuffey | United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873) |
| Montessori, Maria Montesorri | Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952) |
| Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan | United States politician and educator (1927-2003) |
| Naismith, James Naismith | United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game / game of basketball (1861-1939) |
| Orff, Carl Orff | German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982) |
| Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody | educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894) |
| Pitman, Sir Isaac Pitman | English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897) |
| Sullivan, Anne Sullivan, Anne Mansfield Sullivan | United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936) |
| Washington, Booker T. Washington, Booker Taliaferro Washington | United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915) |
| White, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White | United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918) |
| Willard, Emma Hart Willard | United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870) |
| Witherspoon, John Witherspoon | American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who signed of the Declaration of Independence and was president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794) |
| Narrower | academician, academic, faculty member | An educator who works at a college or university / university |
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| lector, lecturer, reader | A public lecturer at certain universities / universities |
| principal, school principal, head teacher, head | The educator who has executive authority for a school |
| schoolmaster | Any person (or institution) who acts as an educator |
| teacher, instructor | A person whose occupation is teaching |
| Broader | professional, professional person | A person engaged in one of the learned professions |
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| Spanish | educacionista, educadora, educador, pedagoga, pedagogo |
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| Catalan | educador, pedagog |
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| Verbs | educate | give an education to |
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