Word: educationalist
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Dates: during 1892-1892
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...Prof. Hanus' interesting lecture on Comenius last night, must have been struck by the fact that, though speaking of a man who lived three hundred years ago the lecturer introduced ideas and theories of education, which are today the very backbone of the systems advocated by the leading educationalist of the day. Comenius was essentially a man far ahead of his times. He recognized, and this is what Harvard is trying to improve upon the public today, that a system of teaching must be a natural one; that the greatest good cannot be gotten out of a man's mind...
...proposal of these celebrations gives one a glimpse of his work and character: "Born in Moravia, working amongst Czechs, Germans, English, Dutch, Swedes and Hungarians, with friends in France and Italy, he (Comenius) has won, by his thought, as well as by his life, a universal significance. * * * As educationalist, inspired by Bacon, he successfully asserted the claims of experimental science in the grammar schools of his time; placed the mother-tongue on the list of subjects of instruction, and included in the conception of the school the idea of physical culture. By demanding the education of all children, including girls...