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few days ago visiting the blog of Mary " Books colors (which incidentally is fantastic, Visit Him) and reading your last post where exposed photographs of a school in southern France I was reminded of my visit to Comenius school museum in Prague, Czech Republic.
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No plans to visit even knew existed but one day almost by accident we passed and knocked at the door, we opened a student who worked there to pay part of their studies, served as caretaker and guide. How many visits did not get amused reading or studying and of course how glad that someone came into the little museum and I do not think many tourists visit indeed. It was extremely kind, accompanied us for the few rooms and in English told us everything that prenguntábamos or what he meant us to see.
Well, for today, I remember Jan Amos Comenius (Comenius, in Latin), from which the name of European education project "Comenius".
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I will not dwell on his biography as the Internet can easily find .
not know if now in the School of Education will study the history of pedagogy, but it is a pity that this does not happen. It is essential to know the origins of our profession. When you study it you realize that there is almost nothing new to say, all is said and pedagogy but we is not forget, do not lose the north in our work. For the rulers do tell them not to believe are his educational ideas were of others and that in them is well to carry out a pact of education.
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| Jan Amos Comenius |
Jan Amos Comenius was born in 1592 in Moravia and died in 1670 in the Netherlands. The war he lived 30 years, must go into exile and could not return to their land.
was a great humanist and a great teacher, perhaps the first teacher and proponent of what we now call Modern School. Comenius
defined so that education was for him:
"art to germinate the seeds inside that are developed by incubation but not when stimulated with appropriate experience, sufficiently varied and rich and heartfelt always new, even who teaches "
Comenius propelled a complete education, integral to take us towards a peaceful humanity.
Comenius believed that we could only achieve world peace through education.
Comenius advocated teaching through the natural learning processes: induction, observation, the senses and reason. According
Comenius had to remove violence from the classroom, the teacher not to teach through punishment and whether to transmit knowledge comprehensively and not rote
Comenius wrote several books among which I highlight two: "Orbis pictum" (in which Latin was taught) and was one of the first picture books for students. Y "Magna Didactics" which enhanced the study of languages.
I want to emphasize that all the ideals of Comenius on education and fought all his life for it was 400 years ago. They were ideals that today would see not to pursue as a crime and breach of one of the basic human rights but there are still places in the world where the children 's as do not enjoy it.
A sponge then what Comenius postulated: (taken from the next page)
- A teacher must teach only one student group.
- That this group should be homogeneous regarding age.
- Q ue must meet in schools all the youth of both sexes (Chapter IX of Didactics Magna)
- That school students should be distributed by grade of difficulty, beginner, intermediate and advanced.
- That each school can not be completely independent but must organize school education systems simultaneously.
- That all Schools must begin and end their activities the same day, same time (a single school calendar.)
- that instruction must comply with the requirements of ease, brevity and consistency.
- Recommendations for Teachers: 1, mother-tongue teaching, 2 nd to know things and then teach them, and 3 ° to eliminate school violence.
- That the best way to apprehend read is a book that combines: age-adjusted readings with graphs and pictures, etc.
- Learning be game, children go to school with joy and parental visits to school, a party.
- how to design an architecture should be constructed schools, with courtyards, gardens and cheerful and open spaces.
We must not forget the many things / as teachers, parents and politicians, especially the 11 principles of Comenius NEVER
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