Czech Books Jan Amos Comenius: a philosopher for the 21st century
The 17th century Czech philosopher and writer, Jan Amos Komenský – known internationally as Comenius - is one of the best known Czechs of all time. He is most widely celebrated for his progressive and enlightened ideas about education that earned him the epithet “the Teacher of Nations”. But the many other aspects of his thinking - and he was indeed a prolific writer with some 250 books to his name – remain somewhat neglected. This is something that Benjamin Kuras has decided to try to put right, in a small but inspiring book that he has just written for Prague’s Comenius Museum, entitled “Restoring Comenius”. As Ben told me, when we met to discuss the book, it did not take long before he realized the extraordinary breadth of Comenius’ thinking, that in many ways was far ahead of its time.
V. Stribrny, Comenius's farewell to the homeland
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