ABSTRACT
John Amos Comenius was born in the last decade of the sixteenth century, at that time the study of educational theory and practice in Europe had risen to one of its highest levels. In the year 1641 -1642, when John Locke was a boy of nine or ten, Comenius, then a man of fifty, was in London. He had come, it is said, by invitation of the Long Parliament, to put into effect plans for a great new institution of learning. And the English Parliament, at the suggestion of a group of persons who were interested in the New Learning, was seriously considering the granting of funds, the assignment of buildings for the institution which Comenius was to set up and carry on. Comenius found enthusiastic and powerful support awaiting him in London. Like many another educational reformer, Comenius rebelled against the scholastic formalism of his own schooling.
