John Amos Comenius, Bishop of the Moravians: His Life and Educational Works

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C. W. Bardeen, 1892 - 264 páginas
 

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Página 193 - When he established the clouds above. When he strengthened the fountains of the deep. When he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment. When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Página 128 - Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith : prove your own selves
Página 191 - The foundation of all learning consists in representing clearly to the senses sensible objects, so that they can be apprehended easily.
Página 1 - Education, Three Lectures on the Practice of. I. On Marking, by HW EVE, MA II. On Stimulus, by A. SIDGWICK, MA III. On the Teaching of Latin Verse Composition, by EA ABBOTT, DD is. Stimulus. A Lecture delivered for the Teachers' Training Syndicate, May, 1882, by A.
Página 70 - Comenius is a grand and venerable figure of sorrow. Wandering, persecuted and homeless during the terrible and desolating thirty years war, he yet never despaired, but with enduring truth and strong in faith he labored unweariedly to prepare youth by a better education for a better future.
Página 43 - Why should we not use our eyes, ears, and noses as well as they ? And why should we need other teachers than these our senses to learn to know the works of Nature ? Why, say I, should we not, instead of these dead books, lay open the living book of Nature, in which there is much more to contemplate than any one can ever relate, and the contemplation of which brings much more of pleasure, as well as of profit ?" These are the thoughts that underlie the text-books of Comenius and give them their value.
Página 179 - Parvulis parvulus, omnibus omnia. Hoc est vestibuli Latinae linguae auctarium. Voces Latinas primitivas construi coeptas, et in sententiolas breves redactas, exhibens. — In praeludium sylvam Latinam ingressuris datum.
Página 162 - I planned a book in which all things, the properties of things, and actions and passions of things, should be presented, and to each should be assigned its own proper word, believing that in one and the same book the whole connected series of things might be surveyed historically, and the whole fabric of things and words reduced to one continuous context.
Página 45 - AMOS COMENIUS, AND HIS SPECULATIONS ABOUT A REFORMED EDUCATION PROJECT OF A LONDON UNIVERSITY'. Everybody knew Hartlib, He was a foreigner by birth, being the son of a Polish merchant, of German extraction, who had left Poland when that country fell under Jesuit rule, and had settled in Elbing in Prussia in very good circumstances. Twice married before to Polish ladies, this merchant had married, in Prussia, for his third wife, the daughter of a wealthy English merchant of Dantzic ; and thus our...
Página 180 - The Gate of Languages Unlocked, or the Seminary of all Languages and Sciences: that is, a compendious method of learning Latin or any other tongue, along with the elements of all the Sciences and Arts, comprehended under a hundred chapter-headings and in a thousand sentences...

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