British scholar Bacon put forward pedagogy as an independent science for the first time in the article The Value and Development of Science (1623).

Comenius, a Czech educator, published the first systematic pedagogy work in modern times, The Theory of Great Teaching (1632). He is a "representative figure of traditional pedagogy". He is also the father of pedagogy.

Locke, a British philosopher, published Random Talk on Education (1693) and put forward a complete theory of "gentleman education".

Rousseau, a French thinker, published Emile (1762), which profoundly expressed the bourgeois educational thought.

In Kant's On Education (1803), the German philosopher Kant clearly put forward the proposition that "the method of education must become a science" and "educational experiment".

Extended data

Great teaching theory focuses on the problem of teaching theory. Comenius clearly expounded the most basic purpose of great teaching theory in Greetings to Readers.

He said that teaching theory is the art of teaching, and "great teaching theory" is the universal art of "teaching everything to all people", and it is the art of "teaching with certainty", "teaching with fun" and "teaching with thoroughness".

The book clearly puts forward and demonstrates in detail a series of teaching principles and rules, puts forward and discusses various teaching methods (including general teaching methods and subject-specific teaching methods), and draws up the curriculum of schools at all levels.

The basic organizational form of school teaching work has been established, the principles and requirements for compiling teaching materials have been formulated, and even specific provisions have been made on how teachers can give a good class. The Great Teaching Theory also discusses moral education, religious education, art education and physical education.

Comenius enthusiastically praised the education industry as the proudest industry in the world. "Where can our contribution to the country be better and greater than teaching and educating people?" ?

At the same time, educators themselves should constantly learn and enrich themselves, so as to better educate others. "Don't think that knowledge is enough for you. You should try your best to improve other people's teaching. "

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