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Great Didactic

Great Didactic – Sumptibus Pragopress – MS II B 8 – Prague National Museum (Prague, Czech Republic)

Czech Republic β€” Ca. 1629

Pathbreaking 17th century pedagogy for people of all classes and genders: Johann Amos Comenius' intriguing autograph of his "Great Didactic" on the art of teaching all humans everything

  1. Johann Amos Comenius (1592–1670) was a Moravian philosopher, pedagogue, Protestant theologian and member of the Bohemian Unity of the Brethren

  2. Comenius wrote the work in Latin around 1629, but it was not published for the first time until 1657

  3. In 33 chapters, the author describes how everyone can learn everything, regardless of their status or gender

Great Didactic

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Great Didactic – Sumptibus Pragopress – MS II B 8 – Prague National Museum (Prague, Czech Republic)
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Great Didactic

Johann Amos Comenius' Didactica Magna is considered the first major work on pedagogy and was groundbreaking for the schooling of children. The philosopher, pedagogue, and theologian followed the philosophy that everyone can and should learn everything and was the first to think about pedagogy from the child's perspective rather than from that of the adult. In his Great Didactic he also explicitly advocates compulsory education for all girls and boys across all social classes, regardless of their intellectual abilities. According to him, teaching should take place in all schools without coercion or violence. His goals were equal opportunity and humanity. Comenius wrote the autograph of this remarkable treatise, which is now preserved in the National Library of the Czech Republic, around 1629. However, it took another 28 years before the work was finally published in print, thus establishing the discipline of β€œpedagogy” as such.

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Alternative Titles
Didactica Magna
Universale Omnes Omnia Docendi Artificium Exhibens -- The Great Didactic
The Whole Art of Teaching all Things to all Man
Didaktika českÑ
Didactica bohemica
Size / Format
298 pages / 33.5 Γ— 20.0 cm
Date
Ca. 1629
Language
Czech
Content
The Great Didactic by Comenius
Previous Owners
Archive of St. John's church at Leszno
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Publisher: Sumptibus Pragopress – Prague, 1970
Commentary: 1 volume by Stanislav KrΓ‘lΓ­k
Languages: Czech, English, French, German, Russian
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