Institutional Founders and System Builders groups educators whose central legacy is founding, leading or architecting a governing institution or a school system, separate from a founder whose legacy is a specific teaching method. Belongs here: Fatima al-Fihri, credited with founding the mosque and madrasa that grew into the University of al-Qarawiyyin; Robert Hutchins, president and chancellor of the University of Chicago who built the Great Books curriculum there; Horace Mann, architect of the American common school movement; Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute; and Johann Julius Hecker, whose Realschule reshaped Prussian schooling. Does not belong here: a founder of a portable teaching method not tied to one institution or system, such as Maria Montessori, grouped under Founders of Named Pedagogical Methods and Movements.
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The earliest known formal school was developed in Egypt's Middle Kingdom under the direction of Kheti, treasurer to Mentuhotep II (2061-2010 BC).
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