Rousseau's book Emile strongly criticized the traditional view of education since ancient times, emphasized that education should be natural, and advocated that education should be centered on children, just like Heliocentrism advocated by Copernicus in astronomy, which caused an epoch-making revolution in the history of world education. Human nature is good, and Aristotle's thinking about nature, habit and reason has touched philosophy. Sensory theory has the significance of psychological germination.

Comenius criticized the disadvantages of feudal old education and put forward all new educational requirements and epoch-making educational ideas that meet the needs of the bourgeoisie, such as universal wisdom theory, class teaching system, and big teaching theory. So Comenius is also called Copernicus in the history of education. Although it is correct for education to conform to the principle of nature, it is unconvincing to quote nature. The thought of universal wisdom embodies a kind of social improvement thought, which is not a complete rejection of the church and feudal society.