This paper theoretically summarizes the educational experience since the Renaissance in Europe and establishes a relatively complete educational theory system. The Great Teaching Theory written by him at 1632 is regarded by the world as a sign that pedagogy has become an independent discipline.
Jan Amos Komensky Comenius, john amos (Czech Republic: Jan Amos Komensk? (German: john amos Comenius) (Polish: Jan Amos KoMeschi) (Hungarian: Comenius? Mos János (Latin: Iohannes Amos Comenius) was born in 1592 and died in 1670. He is a Czech native speaker of Moravian, a great Czech democratic educator and the founder of modern western educational theory. He was born in a miller's family. He was the earliest advocate of public education, and his thoughts were put forward in the book "On Great Teaching". When he was young, he was elected as the priest of the Czech Brotherhood and presided over the Brotherhood School. After the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War (16 18 ~ 1648), he was forced into exile for decades and continued to engage in educational and social activities. He sharply criticized the school education in the Middle Ages and called for "teaching all knowledge to all people". Put forward a unified academic system, advocate universal primary education, adopt a class teaching system, expand subject categories and contents, and emphasize the acquisition of knowledge from things themselves. His main works are Parenting School, Great Teaching Theory, Introduction to Language and Science, World Map, etc.