Education Periods
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Objectives:
By the end of this module we should be able to:
• Trace the history of education from earliest times to present.
• Identify the different significant contributors to education from the following centuries:
• 16th to 17th Century
• 18th to 19th Century
• 19th to 20th Century
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16th to 17th Century
Education for This World
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John Amos Comenius
March 28, 1592 – November 14, 1670
Children ought to be dearer to parents than gold and silver, than pearls and gems, may be discovered from a comparison between both gifts of God; for…Gold and silver are fleeting and transitory; children an immortal inheritance. ~ Jan Amos Comenius
Father of Modern
Education
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• Developed a philosophy, called pansophism, which emphasized political unity, religious reconciliation, and cooperation in education.
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Didactica Magna (Great Didactic)
(1) learning foreign languages through the vernacular; (2) obtaining ideas through objects rather than words;
(3) starting with objects most familiar to the child to introduce him to both the new language and the more remote world of objects
(4) giving the child a comprehensive knowledge of his environment, physical and social, as well as instruction in religious, moral, and classical subjects
(5) making this acquisition of a compendium of knowledge a pleasure rather than a task
(6) making instruction universal.
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• Outlined a system of schools that is the exact counterpart of the existing American system of kindergarten, elementary school, secondary school, college, and university.
• First introduced pictorial textbooks.
• Applied effective teaching based on the natural gradual growth from simple to more comprehensive concepts
• Supported lifelong