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Issue 13 : Jan Amos Comenius: Father of Modern Education

Originally published in 1987

Issue 13

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Jean Amos Comenius
Jan Amos Comenius: Did You Know?
Seeking a Better Way

The pain and damage of Christian divisions and international warfare affected Comenius and his church both directly and disastrously: His prodigious energy and gifts were obsessively employed to change the way the world and church worked.

Eve Chybova Bock
Between Hus and Herrnhut

This article was a collaboration of Bernard Michel, and the editor, working from notes by Eve Bock and Josef Smolik, whose work appears elsewhere in this issue.
The Unity of the Brethren
Jan Amos Comenius: A Gallery of Figures in the Life and World of Comenius

Jan Amos Comenius was acquainted with scholars, kings, churchmen, businessmen, ordinary and extraordinary men who profoundly influenced his life as he also influenced theirs.
Meeting of the Minds

Jan Amos Comenius and Rene Descartes

Paul Heidebrecht and The Editors
Comenius: A Man of Hope in a Time of Turmoil

Josef Smolik
The Thirty Years War
What Children Owe to Comenius

Lois Lebar
Jan Amos Comenius: Christian History Timeline
Learning from Nature

The Educational Legacy of Jan Amos Comenius

Paul Heidebrecht
Principles Comenius Observed in Nature Applicable to Education
The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart

A Synopsis of the Imaginative Work by Comenius
Knowledge: The Road to Peace

As Comenius saw it, education was the best way out of the Thirty Years War.

Gerald Gutek
From the Archives: The School of Infancy
From the Archives: The Great Didactic
From the Archives: A Handwritten Note
Jan Amos Comenius: Recommended Resources

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