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6. His second wife died, leaving him to look after four ________________children.
7. Finally, his treasured ___________________ was burned and all his manuscripts, results of
decades of work, were destroyed.
8. At _____________________, he was an old man with nothing.
At last, he was cared for in Amsterdam in Holland for the remainder of his life. Yet
“_________________________________________”
He wrote many books, some of which he had to rewrite. A famous one is called
______________________ and, like Pilgrim’s Progress, it tells the story of a traveller finding
Jesus Christ.
His famous book on Education was ____________________, which was read by all Europe.
He cared only about the unity of the Church and wrote a book called ‘The Unity of the
Brethren’.
Foundations of Our Faith 5
Christian Education Reformer’
Jan Comenius
1592 - 1670
We may think Christian schools like ours are new but, in fact, Jan Amos Cormenius was a
Christian educator in the period of Tudor kings in England. Comenius came from the Czech
Republic. He learned by observing nature and he felt that children were like trees. So our
education should be steady, natural, step by step and enjoyable. Like trees, children will grow
from within.
In his day, schools were places of fear and with often cruel teachers.
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