Christian History Magazine—Issue 13: Jan Amos Comenius: Father of Modern Education
Overview
Jean Piaget writes, “Education, according to Comenius, is not merely the training of the child at school or in the home; it is a process affecting man’s whole life and the countless social adjustments he must make.” This issue of Christian History & Biography introduces the father of Christian Education, a man who amidst exile from his homeland held an inextinguishable hope in the faithfulness of God, the one truth of the Gospel, and the unity of the Church
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Top Highlights
“Faithful to his church’s teaching, he stressed purity of life more than theology” (source)
“Jean Piaget heralds Comenius as ‘the first to conceive a full scale science of education’ and then goes on to make the remarkable assertion that ‘Comenius is thus among the authors who do not need to be corrected or, in reality, contradicted in order to bring them up to date, but merely to be translated and elaborated.’” (source)
“Since they furnish grounds for both sides, he contended that there must be some truth in both views. He also suggested that all religious communities drop their identification labels—Lutherans, Calvinists, Hussites, Waldensians—and proclaim Christ to be their leader by calling themselves simply Christians.” (source)
“It was Comenius who popularized the picture book for educational purposes, who wrote the first textbook to employ pictures as a teaching device. Whenever he could not bring into the classroom the actual object that was to be the subject of discussion, he used pictures, charts, diagrams, maps and models.” (source)
“Today we are still trying to train ‘teachers to teach less so that learners may learn more.’” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 13: Jan Amos Comenius: Father of Modern Education
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christian History Institute
- Print Publication Date: 1987
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670
- Resource ID: LLS:12.30.13
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:38:57Z