John Amos Comenius

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn…

— John Amos Comenius

Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

— John Amos Comenius

There is in the world no rock or tower of such a height that it cannot be scaled by any man (provided…

— John Amos Comenius

If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical…

— John Amos Comenius

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble,…

— John Amos Comenius

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

— John Amos Comenius

We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another…

— John Amos Comenius

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

— John Amos Comenius

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble,…

— John Amos Comenius

For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it…

— John Amos Comenius

The school is the manufactory of humanity.

— John Amos Comenius

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the…

— John Amos Comenius

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

— John Amos Comenius