Female educationist

ke yu
Feb 27, 2025
1 min read

Why famous educationists throughout history, in both West and East--think of Plato, Aristotle, Erasmus, John Dewey, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Piaget, Confucius, Paulo Freire, and some Islamic educationists etc-- are all males (the only exception coming to mind is Maria Montessori) while education is generally seen as a feminine profession? Is it change of time, or authorities figures just tends to be males, or anything else?

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