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| > | philanthropic foundation a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, with assets provided by donors and managed by its own officials and with income expended for socially useful purposes. Foundation, endowment, and charitable trust are terms used interchangeably to designate these organizations, which can be traced far back in history. They existed in the ancient civilizations of the Middle East, ... |
| > | higher education any of various types of education given in postsecondary institutions of learning and usually affording, at the end of a course of study, a named degree, diploma, or certificate of higher studies. Higher-educational institutions include not only universities and colleges but also various professional schools that provide preparation in such fields as law, theology, ... |
| > | New foundations from the education article The three concerns that guided the development of 20th-century education were: the child, science, and society. The foundations for this trilogy were laid by so-called progressive education movements supporting child-centred education, scientific-realist education, and social reconstruction. |
| > | Economic foundations from the liberalism article If the political foundations of liberalism were laid in Great Britain, so too were its economic foundations. By the 18th century British monarchs were constrained by Parliament from pursuing the schemes of national aggrandizement favoured by most rulers on the Continent. These rulers fought for military supremacy, which required a strong economic base. Because the ... |
| > | Education from the Roman Catholicism article Between the barbarian invasions and the Protestant Reformation, education in Europe, except in the Arabic and Jewish centres of learning, was conducted by representatives of the church. Learning during the early Middle Ages was preserved by the monasteries; monks copied the books of the Bible and the manuscripts of Latin pagan writers and of the Church Fathers, and they ... |
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| Education from the Georgia article The Georgia educational system is under the direction of the Department of Education, created by the constitution of 1868. In 1785 the University of Georgia, at Athens, became the first chartered state university in the country. Its first classes were held in 1801. Georgia Institute of Technology, located in Atlanta, opened in 1888; it is one of the country's leading ... |
| Education from the industrial design article There are about 5,000 industrial designers in the United States, and more in other industrialized countries, who have completed college-level courses in the field. Others were educated in areas such as architecture. American designers Charles Eames and George Nelson and Italian designer Gio Ponti were trained as architects but are best known for their product designs. ... |
| Thomas, Franklin (born 1934), U.S. foundation executive. A lawyer, a former police official, and an urban innovator, Franklin Thomas served as president of the Ford Foundation from 1979 to 1996 and established himself as one of the most influential African American leaders in the United States during the last quarter of the 20th century. |
| John D. Rockefeller, Sr. from the Rockefeller family article John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (1839–1937), was born on July 8, 1839, in Richford, N.Y. Rockefeller moved with his family to Ohio, where he completed his high school education. In 1863 Rockefeller built his first petroleum refinery near Cleveland, Ohio, after observing the commercial potential of oil production in western Pennsylvania. In 1870 Rockefeller, along with ... |
| Gates, Bill (born 1955). U.S. computer programmer and entrepreneur Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft Corp., the world's largest personal-computer software company. He served as chairman of the company from 1981 and was Microsoft's largest shareholder. From the mid-1990s Gates was perennially ranked as the world's richest private individual. |
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