Comenius Quotes on Knowledge
Jan Amos Komenský — Comenius (1592–1670) — was the Czech bishop and educational reformer whose Didactica Magna (1657) and Janua Linguarum Reserata (1631) gave early modern pedagogy its systematic foundation. The doctrine of pansophy (universal wisdom) treats genuine knowledge as the orderly cultivation of the human mind in conformity with the orderly structure of the natural world it is created to know, with instruction proceeding from the sensible to the abstract and from the simple to the complex. The framework anticipates by a century the educational and epistemological projects of the Enlightenment.
Quotes
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Attributed to Comenius:
“Let the main object be to find a method by which teachers teach less, but learners learn more.”
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“All things in nature have their seasons, and so does human learning.”
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“Education is the means by which the human being becomes most fully human.”
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“Whatever is to be learned must be learned in its proper order.”
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“Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.”
Akiba ben Joseph , Pirkei Avot , 3:17. -
“Akiba ben Joseph , Pirkei Avot , 3:17.”
Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness. -
“I use humor as a way to cope with that and to let our community know that we’re not invisible, at least not to us.”
Lalo Alcaraz interview (2017) -
“Lalo Alcaraz interview (2017)”
I use humor as a way to cope with that and to let our community know that we’re not invisible, at least not to us. -
“Fred Allen , attributed by Robert Lemke in The Sunday Press (Binghamton, NY), “Rock ‘n Roll ‘Musically Horrid” Says Ex-2-a-Dayer,” pg. 2-C, col. 1 (9 August 1959)”
A good comedian can say things funny and other guys just say funny things. -
“Steve Allen , Funny People (1981)”
Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth , those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp,