To this day he remains one of the most influential and fascinating thinkers in the history of education. In this concise introduction to the work of Comenius, Dr. David Smith sketches some of Comenius ...

Professor Hanus delivered a very interesting lecture last evening, in commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of the birthday of John Amos Comenius. With the advent of Francis Bacon, new life ...

KEARNEY — Everyone knows who Martin Luther was, but far fewer have ever heard of John Amos Comenius. Timothy L. Price had never heard of him, either, until 20 years ago, when he borrowed a 1998 ...

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 ...

At a school in the Czech Republic on October 20th, a groundbreaking experiment took place. Instead of pens and paper, students sat down with specially adapted VR headsets (Oculus Rift DK2s) that ...

We recently covered a (at that point unnamed) VR project by developer Tomáš “Frooxius” Mariančík, the mind behind the stunning ‘Sightline’ VR series of demos. The project fused Leap Motion skeletal ...

The night of March 27, the first night of Passover, is gone and the child’s questioning, the highlight of the Seder ceremony, provides an opportunity to spare some thoughts for parents and teachers.

Teaching not by rote but through play? That's credited to the 17th-century Czech pastor and thinker called Jan Amos Comenius. Splitting schoolchildren up into year groups? That's Comenius. Universal ...

JAN AMOS KOMENSKÝ, the famous Czech philosopher and educationist, better known by his Latinised name, Comenius, was born at Uherský Brod, Moravia, in 1592. He spent a few years at the University of ...