This book has brought out the basic essentials of education that some of the great educational thinkers of the West I have advocated for reforms of education in their respective lands of birth. Needless to add that what they have said is applicable for all countries of the world. It is, therefore, that the ideas of these thinkers have influenced the existing shapes of education not only in their own countries, but also all over the world. In many respects they may be regarded as some of the great makers of the modern western civilization. As a result, this book is likely to be very interesting to all the lovers of modern education. The educational thinkers discussed herein are generally taught to graduate and postgraduate students as an essential part of their courses in "Educational Philosophy" or "Western Educational Philosophers". So this book is likely to be of great academic interest to such students of education.