John Amos Comenius: A Visionary Reformer of Schools (Audiobook)

*Please note: the streamable audio files will be available in My Library upon purchase.  John Amos Comenius, a seventeenth-century theologian and reformer, had so great an influence on Western schooling that he has been called the father of modern education. To this day he remains one of the most influential and fascinating thinkers in the history of education. In this concise introduction to the work of Comenius, Dr. David Smith sketches some of Comenius’s central ideas, pointing to several important themes that summarize Comenius’s tireless work for educational reform. Readers will discover that amongst the literally hundreds of works Comenius wrote in Czech and Latin, many of which are lost to us today, he created one of the world's most successful children's picture books*; suggested that learning should resemble gardening; and proposed that joy, piety, and harmony are central to the education of children. In this audiobook, Smith also touches on the key questions with