![]() ![]() “ Comenius was thus left an orphan at an early age, and his guardians appear to have robbed him of any small fortune that his father had bequeathed.” ![]() His father died when he was 10, his mother a couple of years later, followed by his sisters. It’s inspiring that someone with Komensky’s childhood should have penned the primer by which all others would be judged. Amongst these are reckoned, The jolt-headed (5), The great-nosed (6), The blubber-lipped (7), The blub-cheeked (8), The goggle-eyed (9), The wry-necked (10), The great-throated (11), The Crump-backed (12), The Crump-footed (13), The steeple-crowed (15), add to these The Bald-pated (14)” Deformed & Monstrous People, Orbis Pictus “…are those which differ in the Body from the ordinary shape, as the huge Gyant (1), the little Dwarf (2), One with two Bodies (3), One with two Heads (4), and such like Monsters. “His Followers refrain themselves from Wine are circumcised, have many Wives build Chapels, from the Steeples whereof, they are called to Holy Service not by Bells but by a Priest, they wash themselves often, they deny the Holy Trinity: they honour Christ, not as the Son of God, but as a great Prophet, yet less than Mahomet they call their Law the Alcoran.” the fore part of the Neck (which ends at the Arm-holes,) is the Throat, the hinder part, the Crag, The Breast is before the back behind Women have in it two Dugs, with Nipples…” ![]() The Orbis Pictus covered subjects ranging from anatomy: History and Progress of Education, by Philobiblius, N.Y., 1860, p. Corrected and amended by later editors, it continued for nearly two hundred years, to be a text-book of the German schools.” In those portions of Germany where the schools had been broken up by the “Thirty years’ war,” mothers taught their children from its pages. “…it differed from all previous text-books, in being illustrated with pictures, on copper and wood, of the various topics discussed in it. So begins Comenius’s Orbis Pictus, a “ Nomenclature and Pictures of all the Chief Things that are in the World and of Men’s Employments therein.” The first illustrated encyclopedia for children. M: To understand rightly, to do rightly, and to speak out rightly all that are necessary. Today is the birthday of Jan Amos Komensky, better known by his Latin name Comenius. If there’s anything I learned in junior high school, it’s “when in doubt, pick ‘C’.” Komensky on the Czech 200 note Jan Amos Komensky, teacher, pastor and writer who was expelled from his own country to spend 42 years in exile. Dixon Ticonderoga, explorer and discoverer of the graphite mountain from which all pencils are hewn. Frederick Scantron, inventor of the multiple-choice test. The Czech Republic and Slovakia celebrate Teacher’s Day on March 28 to commemorate the 1592 birthday of: ![]()
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