ABSTRACT
The man who felt himself called to reorganise education on this new basis, to train a new generation of the human race fit for more difficult enterprises and more extended conquests, was John Amos Comenius. Wolfgang Ratke, sometimes called Ratichius, according as follow the high or low German form of his name, was born at Wilster, in Holstein, in 1571. With Ratich, the very first thing was to state clearly the general drift of the author's meaning, and the grammar was abstracted by the efforts of each individual pupil. In the autumn of 1641 Comenius was summoned to England by order of the Parliament. The king being in Scotland and the Parliament prorogued for three months, he spent the winter in London. Comenius goes on to describe at length the methods of teaching the sciences and the arts, languages, morals and piety. He also proposes to write a book for mothers, and a picture book for the instruction of children.
