A student's history of educationGraves, Frank Pierrepont
History
A student's history of education
Graves, Frank Pierrepont
Education -- History
The _Shoemaker_, 1. | _Sutor_, 1.
maketh _Slippers_, 7. | conficit _Crepidas_
| (Sandalia,) 7.
_Shoes_, 8. | _Calceos_, 8.
(in which is seen | (in quibus spectatur
above, the _Upper-leather_, | superne _Obstragulum_,
beneath the _Sole_, | inferne _Solea_,
and on both sides | et utrinque
the _Latchets_) | _Ansæ_)
_Boots_, 9. | _Ocreas_, 9.
and _High Shoes_, 10. | et _Perones_, 10.
of _Leather_, 5. | e _Corio_, 5.
(which is cut with a | (quod discinditur
_Cutting-knife_), 6. | _Scalpro Sutorio_, 6.)
by means of an _Awl_, 2. | ope _Subulæ_, 2.
and _Lingel_, 3. | et Fili _picati_, 3.
upon a _Last_, 4. | super _Modum_, 4.
Fig. 21.--A page from the _Orbis Pictus_ of Comenius, illustrating a
lesson on a trade.
(Reproduced from the edition published by C. W. Bardeen, 1887.)
[Sidenote: Pansophic training at every stage of education.]
=His Encyclopædic Arrangement of Knowledge.=--The rest of the works
of Comenius may be regarded as amplifications of various parts of
this _Great Didactic_. Besides the Janual series, which he seems to
have written for the Latin school, he produced a set of texts for
the vernacular school, which soon disappeared, and a handbook for
the lowest work, called _The School of Infancy_. But the phase of
the _Great Didactic_ most often elaborated was the realistic one of
_pansophia_ or ‘universal knowledge.’ This principle was not only
exemplified in such works as the _Janua_ and _Orbis Pictus_ and
in treatises he wrote upon astronomy and physics, but in various
educational institutions that he undertook to found, and it remained
the ruling passion throughout his life. In the _Great Didactic_ he
went so far as to hold that an encyclopædic training should be given
at every stage of education,--mother school, vernacular school, Latin
school, and university.
[Sidenote: Each succeeding stage to enlarge the body of knowledge.]
[Sidenote: The ‘didactic college’ for all nations.]
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