DZIEDZICTWO DYDAKTYCZNE JANA AMOSA KOMEŃSKIEGO
THE DIDACTIC HERITAGE OF JOHN AMOS COMENIUS

Summary/Abstract: Comenius lived at the time when many historical changes took place. He was born during the reign of Rudolf II, he studied under Matthias, operated in Fulnek under Frederick of the Palatinate, he had to go to exile under Ferdinand II., fled from the burn-out Lešno under Ferdinand III., died during the reign of Leopold I. He was hit by an uprising against Ferdinand II. (1618–1620), the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), the election of Frederick of the Palatinate as the Czech king (1619), the White Mountain Battler (1620), systematic recatholization (1624), the English revolution (1640–1660) etc. The presented article shows how these events formed the Comenius’s personality, forcing him to respond to the time period, to develop his thoughts and to think of a better future of man which he saw in education and upbringing. The presented article deals with the analysis and legacy of the Comenius’s didactic work. It brings near the timelessness of the Comenius’s thoughts consisting of connecting the target, content, conditions and means of education and upbringing. It refers also to the progressiveness of thoughts connected to the adult education.

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