John Amos Comenius, Bishop of the Moravians: His Life and Educational WorksC. W. Bardeen, 1892 - 264 sivua |
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Sivu 69 - ... regulate their lives as to be worthy of dwelling with God ; that whosoever walk with God here, will dwell with Him everlastingly, and that by walking with God is meant having Him constantly before our eyes, fearing Him, and keeping His commandments. Let them be taught to refer all things — whatsoever they hear or see, do or suffer, — to God, mediately or immediately. Let them learn to occupy themselves from the earliest years with those things that lead to God — the reading of the Holy...
Sivu 15 - ... they are the terror of boys, and the slaughter-houses of minds, — places where a hatred of literature and books is contracted, where ten or more years are spent in learning what might be acquired in one, where what ought to be poured in gently is violently forced in and beaten in, where what ought to be put clearly and perspicuously is presented in a confused and intricate way, as if it were a collection of puzzles,— places where minds are fed on words.
Sivu 93 - The foundation of all learning consists in representing clearly to the senses sensible objects, so that they can be apprehended easily. I maintain that this is the basis of all other actions, inasmuch as we could neither act nor speak wisely unless we comprehended clearly what we wished to say or do. For it is certain that there is nothing in the Understanding which has not been previously in the Senses; and consequently, to exercise the senses carefully in discriminating the differences of natural...
Sivu 93 - The Orbis Pictus (The World Illustrated). In 1657 appeared the Orbis Pictus, the second edition following in 1659. This book was intended to be supplementary and subsidiary to the Vestibulum and Janua. It is simpler than even the first edition of the Janua, and much more suitable for a school-book than the second edition of the Vestibulum. In this little book Comenius applies his principles more fully than in any other, for we have not only a simple treatment of things in general, but of things that...
Sivu 89 - Vestibulum, in which the primitive words already used, and many others, were worked up into short simple sentences. This book (called the Auctarium) was intended to serve as a revision of the work done in the Vestibulum, to initiate into the construction of sentences, and to serve as a bridge to the Janua. But it was distinguished from the Vestibulum in this respect, that whereas the latter was an arrangement of words under the head of Things (classified), the former was alphabetically arranged —...
Sivu 33 - Comenius,' says Von Raumer truly, ' is a grand and venerable figure of sorrow. Wandering, persecuted, and homeless, during the terrible and desolating Thirty Years...
Sivu 27 - 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...
Sivu 121 - The London Vocabulary English and Latin; Put into a New Method, proper to acquaint the learner with Things as well as Pure Latin Words. Adorned with Twenty-six Pictures. For the Use of Schools.
Sivu 56 - Leave nothing until it has been impressed by means of the ear, the eye, the tongue, the hand. Write up on the walls (or draw) the substance of your teaching. Thus the pupils will also acquire the habit of writing down in their note-books. NINTH PRINCIPLE. — Nature produces nothing the use of which is not ultimately apparent — eg wings and feet are found to be formed for flying and running.