The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of various…

- 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, rich and poor, in all cities and town…

- John Amos Comenius

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

- 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 art, a single pleasing story or p…

- 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 is only within the last thi…

- 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 he lack not feet) if ladders are placed in the …

- 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

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

- John Amos Comenius

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

- John Amos Comenius