PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I EUROPEAN EDUCATION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER II FORERUNNERS OF COMENIUS

CHAPTER III BOYHOOD AND EARLY LIFE OF COMENIUS: 1592 - 1628

CHAPTER IV CAREER AS AN EDUCATIONAL REFORMER: 1628 - 1656

CHAPTER V CLOSING YEARS: 1656 - 1670

CHAPTER VI PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

CHAPTER VII EARLIEST EDUCATION OF THE CHILD

CHAPTER VIII STUDY OF LANGUAGE

CHAPTER IX INFLUENCE OF COMENIUS ON MODERN EDUCATORS

CHAPTER X PERMANENT INFLUENCE OF COMENIUS

APPENDICES I. TABLE OF DATES (a) Pertaining to the Life of Comenius

FOOTNOTES:

INDEX

COMENIUS

The Great Educators

Edited by NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER

COMENIUS

AND

THE BEGINNINGS OF EDUCATIONAL
REFORM

BY

WILL S. MONROE, A.B.
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY IN THE
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL AT WESTFIELD, MASS.



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