John Amos Comenius

The author devotes a number of interesting pages to the books by John Amos Comenius, who rightly championed the use of visual aids in education, because he wanted to free children of the empty drudgery of memorizing.

Mysteries of Dutch Painting Gombrich, Ernst 1983

Works on education by John Amos Comenius, a great educational reformer and a friend of Hartlib’s.

Of Education 1909

Works on education by John Amos Comenius, a great educational reformer and a friend of Hartlib’s.

Of Education 1909

With the help of a disciple of the greatest educational thinker of the period, John Amos Comenius (chapter XVII), he worked out a School Code (_Schulmethode_, 1642) which was the pedagogic masterpiece of the seventeenth century (R. 163).

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

John Amos Comenius (1592-1671) is now generally recognized as the founder of modern education.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

The torch that fell from Ratich's hand was seized, ere it touched the ground, by John Amos Comenius, who became the head, and still continues the head, of the sense-realistic school.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

Mrs. Attaway -- Samuel Hantlib, John Durie, and John Amos Comenius: Schemes of a Reformed Education, and Project of a London University -- Milton's

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864