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John Amos Comenius

10/23/2014

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John Amos Comenius is considered the Father of Modern Education.  As we desire to honor the fathers that have added so much to the world, we thought it fitting to honor Comenius.

As adapted from Moravian College (moravian.edu),
"John Amos Comenius tried to improve the ways students were taught. His first success in this area was a beginning Latin textbook, Janua Linguarum Reserata ("The Gate of Languages Unlocked"), published in 1631. Much later in life, he showed that he still had the needs of beginners on his mind, producing the first-ever children's picture book, Orbis Pictus ("The World Illustrated"), published in 1658. Both these books became best-sellers, translated into every major European language and used by beginning learners for over a hundred years.
Comenius's most important work, however, was written between 1628 and 1632, first in Czech and then in Latin: the Didactica Magna, usually called in English The Great Didactic. Perhaps a more meaningful translation would be "The Whole Art of Teaching." It explored how people learn and how they should be taught from infancy through the university and beyond. Published in 1649, it was a radical work for its time. In an age when people believed that human beings were born naturally evil and that goodness and knowledge had to be beaten into them, Comenius believed that they were born with a natural craving for knowledge and goodness, and that schools beat it out of them.

Although he did not use the modern words (nor did the Victorian translator who made his work available in English), Comenius addressed such topics as


  • Education for everyone
  • Students' natural tendency to learn
  • Learning by easy stages
  • Financial aid
  • Career preparation
  • Extracurricular activities
  • Lifelong learning

It is thanks to him that educators today think these things are important."
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