Will Seymour Monroe surveys European schooling in the sixteenth century and the forerunners of reform such as Vives, Bacon and Ratke, then follows the life of John Amos Comenius from his Moravian boyhood through exile and his work as an educational reformer to his last years in Amsterdam. Closing chapters set out his philosophy of teaching and his influence on later reformers.
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