Graham Wallas

According to the Spartacus educational website:

In 1884 Wallas joined the Fabian Society. He soon emerged as one of the three leaders of the group, or as George Bernard Shaw put it, "one of the Three Musketeers". With the support of the Fabians Graham Wallas was elected to the London School Board in 1894 and chaired its School Management Committee. In 1894 Wallas was elected to the London County Council where he became a member of the Education Committee.

When Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb established the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1895, they asked Wallas to become its first director. Wallas declined the offer but did agree to teach at the LSE and eventually became professor of politics (1914-23).

Wallas argued for the humanizing of modern life and believed that educators should pay more attention to human beings than institutions. Wallas wrote several books on social psychology and politics including Human Nature in Politics (1908), The Great Society (1914), Our Social Heritage (1921) and the Art of Thought (1926). Graham Wallas died in 1932.