Thomas Franklin Green (8 February 1927 – 20 December 2006) was an American educational theorist and philosopher.
[1] Born on 8 February 1927, Thomas Franklin Green was raised in Lincoln, Nebraska.
He studied political science and philosophy at the University of Nebraska, graduating in 1948.
Green elected to pursue a master's degree in philosophy, which he finished in 1949 at Nebraska.
Green was appointed Margaret O. Slocum Professor of Education in 1980 and retired from Syracuse in 1993.