Jan Amos Komenský – Comenius
Teacher of the Nations
(1592-1670)
Teacher, educator, philosopher and writer
- Founder of
modern education
- Wrote 154 books (many of them used as textbooks for more than 100 years)
- - The first to use pictures in textbooks
- - Promoted effective teaching based on the natural gradual growth from simple to more comprehensive concepts
- - Promoted education also for women and poor
- - Promoted lifelong learning
- - Supported logical thinking instead of just memorization
- - Was offerred to be the first President of Harvard College – he declined
He became a priest of Moravian Brethren church
(served in Fulnek - you visited it). In consequence of the Thirty Years War,
he lost all his property and had to leave with all Brethren into exile when the Habsburg Counter-Reformation persecuted the Protestants in Bohemia. He travelled then around Europe, promoted
his education ideas and hoped that it would be possible to return to his home
country.
Many education projects have been named after
Comenius. His birthday - 28. March - is celebrated as Teacher´s Day.
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