He thought that students’ schooling in his time, which relied on rote memorization and rarely engaged children’s senses, made the “work of teaching and learning goeth heavily onward, and affordeth little benefit.” Large woodblock illustrations graced every page, as Comenius aimed for a book that satisfied children’s natural desire for illustration and example. In other words, Comenius thought he could give young people a comprehensive introduction to the world over the course of just a few hundred pages. Ioannes Amos Comenius, Orbis Sensualium Pictus, title page (1685) Jean Piaget, the immensely influential 20 th century Swiss developmental psychologist, said that Comenius was the first to conceive a “full-scale science of education” in the history of European education. The highest UNESCO medal, a large public university in Bratislava, Slovakia, and even an asteroid bear his name. He was an early advocate of formal universal education for all young people, believing that every child could learn and understand with good teaching and access to educational resources. In addition, Cotton Mather, a prominent Puritan clergyperson and prolific writer (notoriously involved in the Salem Witch Trials with his father, Increase Mather) reports in his M agnalia Christi Americana(1702) that Comenius was offered the presidency of a colonial Harvard College in 1654 (which he turned down). He is also one of the most famous thinkers on education in history, immensely influential after his death and during in his lifetime, when he was courted by several European governments to reform their developing educational systems. Orphaned at twelve, Comenius did not attend school until the age of sixteen, was a religious refugee for most of his life and, owing to the sectarian catastrophes of the Thirty Years’ War, his house and possessions were publicly burned on multiple occasions. Jan Amos Komenský (1592-1670 CE), better known by his Latinized name, Ioannes Amos Comenius, was born in the Margraviate of Moravia, one of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown of the Holy Roman Empire in modern-day Czech Republic. In addition, the author thanks Kara Johnson and Sophia Croll of The Newberry Library for their expertise, assistance, and encouragement at every stage. It showcases not only the most valuable prints from the 17th and 18th centuries, but also its more recent editions from the 19th and 20th centuries.The author would like to acknowledge the kind assistance of Vladimír Urbánek and Tomáš Havelka of the Department of Comenius Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, who provided helpful bibliographies, suggestions for further research, and access to contemporary Comenius scholarship in the early writing stages of this Digital Collection. The exhibition, entitled Orbis Pictus / Throughout the Ages, is a joint project of the National Museum, the Pedagogical Museum and the National Comenius Pedagogical Library in Prague. The fact that it is still published today proves that it still has something to say even to contemporary readers.” Orbis Pictus was published 259 times and was translated into 19 languages. “I think that the numbers speak for themselves. According to Mr Šípek, the textbook is relevant even today, more than 300 years after its first publishing. Orbis Pictus, which was still in use decades after Comenius’s death, is based on his fundamental principle of proceeding from the simple to the complicated. We could say Comenius was a great promoter of what we call project-based learning.” It was supposed to teach the children foreign languages in a playful way and at the same time teach them something about the world around them. Photo: ČTK/Michal Krumphanzl “Comenius wrote Orbis Pictus in the first half of the 17th century, while working as professor in Sárospatak in Hungary.
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