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John Amos Comenius

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Amos Comenius , Czech Jan Amos Komenský, 1592-1670, Moravian churchman and educator, last bishop of the Moravian Church. Comenius advocated relating education to everyday life by emphasizing contact with objects in the environment and systematizing all knowledge. He did not regard religion and science as incompatible. Teaching was to be in the vernacular rather than in Latin, and languages were to be learned by the conversational method. He worked for a universal system of education offering equal opportunities to women. His Didactica magna (1628-32; tr. by M. W. Keatinge,... Read more
John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius The Moravian theologian and educational reformer John Amos Comenius (1592-1670) is often called the father of modern education. John Amos Comenius was born on Mar. 28, 1592, in southeastern... Read more
Comenius, John Amos
Comenius, John Amos (1592–1670) Czech religious leader and educational reformer, who influenced modern education. Comenius believed in equal education for all children. His best-known book was Orbis Sensualum Pictus ( The Visible World in Pictures , 1658). Read more

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