The Teacher of Nations : Addresses and Essays in Commemoration of the Visit to England of the Great Czech Educationalist Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius) (Paperback)

Editorial introduction; 1. The place of Comenius in history of a good European Eduard Bene?; 2. Comenius as a pioneer of education J. L. Paton; 3. Education and community Henry Morris; 4. Comenius' visit to England (1641), and the rise of scientific societies in the seventeenth century J. D. Bernal; 5. Comenius and the invisible college (1645?62) R. Fitzgibbon Young; 6. Comenius and Harvard J. B. Conant; 7. Comenius' life and work in its historical setting O. Odlo?ilik; 8. Comenius, the English revolution, and our present plight Oskar Kokoschka; 9. Comenius and confidence in the rational mind Dorothea Waley Singer; 10. The social relations of science in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries J. G. Crowther; 11. The debt of Europe to Czechoslovakia and to Comenius Ernest Barker; Table of dates illustrating the life of Comenius, with special reference to his plans for pansophic encyclopaedias and scientific societies, and to his interest in educational work among the Indians of New England and Virginia R. Fitzgibbon Young; Select bibliography of the educational and scientific works of Comenius, and of publications concerning Comenius Anna Heyberger.