Excerpt from Comenius School of Infancy: An Essay on the Education of Youth During the First Six Years
"May the guiding star and rudder of our didactic be this: to search out and discover a rule in accordance with which teachers teach less and learners learn more; the school contain less noise and confusion, but more enjoyment and solid progress; the Christian state suffer less from an all pervading gloom, discord, and derangement, but find more order, light, peace, and tranquillity," thus wrote John Amos Comenius, the evangelist of modern pedagogy, nearly three hundred years ago.
Comenius believed that education would regenerate the race; accordingly all children, rich and poor, high and low, boys and girls, were to be educated. Instruction must begin in early youth and follow the course of nature. For this purpose, he outlined an ideal scheme which extended from the birth of the child to the age of twenty-four years. This system of education provides for four grades of schools: 1. The Mother school, which shall cover the first six years of the child's life, laying the foundation for all that he is to learn in the later life.
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