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A 5 page overview of the impact of each of these theorists on
the educational process and curriculum design. This paper emphasizes
that there has been an evolution over time in the way we view both the
cognitive process and the educational approach. Bibliography lists 4
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A number of theorists have significantly impacted our educational process. Four theorists in particular, however, stand out in regard to their impact on curriculum
in the classroom. These theorists are B.F. Skinner, Wolfgang Kohler, Pythagoras, and Plato. The theories which each presents vary considerably from one another. A comparison of these
theories, however, show a progression of our understanding of the cognitive process over time and a progression of how this process relates to the educational process.
Pythagoras was one of the first theorists to influence curricular design. He was born around 570 B.C., a century before the golden age of classical Greece,
on the Greek island of Samos located off the coast of Asia Minor. When he was about forty years of age Pythagoras left his homeland and settled in southern
Italy in the Greek city of Croton. His emigration is blamed on his revulsion to the reign of Polycrates, a tyrant pirate-king who had taken over Samos during Pythagoras
absence. In Croton Pythagoras became a civic leader and became a major influence on Croton politics and, indeed, on educational process (Bosomolny, 2002). He founded the Pythagorean school
of philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences. His teachings soon attracted many followers composed of many different social classes and representing both genders. Their principles and intense quest for
knowledge fueled the examination and discovery of remarkable mathematical and scientific concepts and led to great advancements in these fields. The Pythagoreans were the first to realize the existence
of irrational numbers, for example (Bosomolny, 2002). This realization of course was tied in to the Pythagorean Theorem itself (Bosomolny, 2002). According to their observations the diagonal of
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