• Comenius Programme is cool, but …

• What does the word actually mean?

• What is Comenius? Or, who is it?

• Perhaps, …

• … a Brazilian football star?

• … any ideas?

(1592 - 1670)

Comenius was a…

•Czech-speaking Moravian•teacher •writer•educator•philosopher•priest •father of 4

Comenius´s bust

is in almost every Czech school.

What was the major all-European event then? (1618-48)

Comenius was a Protestant, and Czech Protestants lost the war to Catholic Habsburgs

He became a religious refugee

In consequence of the religious war he lost all his property and his writings and his home.

Comenius took refuge in Leszno in Poland, where he led the gymnasium

• He lived and worked in Sweden, Poland, Transylvania, the Holy Roman Empire, England, Hungary and the Netherlands.

• Comenius wandered around Europe not for the love of travelling, but because he was looking for a place with religious and academic freedom.

• …served as the last bishop of Unity of the Brethren, the biggest Protestant Church

• …is considered the father of

modern education

A great teacher

• first introduced pictorial textbooks

• taught in native language instead of Latin

• opened doors to education for women

• applied effective teaching based on the natural gradual growth from simple to more comprehensive concepts

SUMMARY:

• Picture textbooks

• Learning in mother tongue

• Travelling for experience

• Learning foreign languages