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Comenius

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Comenius' Encyclopaedia for Children

Camenius' encyclopaedic approach to education is one of the most astonishing aspects of his pedagogy. Even prior to schoolah he has a book called the mother's school, which is about how a mother can begin the process of educating her children in thisEncyclopaedic way. He literally goes through all the disciplines of the encyclopaedia. You take them outsideoyou show them the sun, the moon and the stars, and you're teaching them about astronomy. So it's extraordinarily holistic a approach to education. And it begins from birth and it ends at deathich, gan - an exceptionally modern idea.

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