MEN IN

MODERN
EDUCATION
PERIODS
1. John Amos Comenius
● Born on March 28, 1592 at Nivnice, Moravia
● An education reformer, writer and religious leader
● Known as the “Father of Modern Education”.
● Author of the “Pansophic Principle”
Notable Works:
- Didacta Magna (The Great Didactic – 1632)
- Orbis Sensualium Pictus, 1658.
- Pansophiae prodromus (1639)
- Janua Linguarum Reserata (The Gate of Tongues
Unlocked)
 Influences in Educational Practices today

● He used pictures, maps, charts and other visual aids.

● He even brought drama into the classroom.
● In his system, there were four levels equivalent to
preschool, grade school, high school and college.
● He was also an advocate of continuing education,
believing that learning should be a lifelong process.
● He was first to recognize that the play of childhood was
learning.
“Let the main object to seek and to find a method of instruction,
by which teachers may teach less but learners learn more. “

- John Amos Comenius

2. John Locke
- Born on August 29, 1632 at Wrington,
Somerset, England.

- An economist, political operative, physician,

Oxford scholar, and medical researcher as well
as a great philosopher.

- Known as the “Father of Classical Liberalism”

Notable Works:
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (published on 1689)

- Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

- John Locke
3. Francis Bacon
- Born on January 22 in London.

- He was an English stateman, attorney general

and philosopher.

- promote the “scientific method”

 Notable Works:
Steps:
- Table of Investigation
Novum Organum - Table of Presence
– meaning “new method”. - Table of Absence of Proximity
- Table of Comparison
“Education is, in essence, nothing but more established habits.”

- Francis Bacon
4. Richard Mulcaster
- Born on 1531.
- First Headmaster of Merchant Taylor’s
School in London.
Notable Works
Two treaties on Education:

• Positions, published on 1581.

• Elementarie, published on 1582.
 Contributions
- He recommended special university training for teachers, comparable
to doctors and lawyers, careful selection of teachers and adequate
salaries, assignment of the best teachers to the lowest grades and close
association between teachers and parents.
- He emphasized the importance of individual differences in children,
the adjustment of the curriculum to these differences, and the use of
readiness rather than age in determining progress.
“The teacher’s life is painful and therefore would be pitied: it wrastles
with unthankfulness above all measure. Our calling creepes low and
hath pain for companion.”

- Richard Mulcaster
5. Francois Fenelon

• He was born on August 6, 1651 at

the Fenilon Castle in Perigord.

• He was a French Catholic

Archbishop, theologian, poet and
writer.
Notable Works
• Treaties on the Education for Girls
• The Adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses
“Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive our
slightest defects. It general those who govern children forgive
nothing in them, but everything in themselves.”
-Francis Fenelon
6. Wolfgang Ratke

• He was born on October 18, 1571 at

Wilster Holstein, Germany.

• An educational reformer
 Major Contributions to Education

- Learning through experience and experiment rather than

rote.
- Processing from the concrete to the abstract.
- Mastering one concept before moving to another.
- Learning through repetition.
- Perfecting knowledge of the native language before
attempting to learn foreign tongues.
 7. Martin Luther

- He was born on November 10, 1483 at

Saxony, Germany
- A German theologian and religious
reformer.
- Argued for compulsory education for
all.
- Chief Catalyst of Protestantism
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to
think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true
education.”

- Martin Luther
 8. John Baptist Dela Salle

- Born on April 30, 1651 at Reims, France.

- Pioneer in founding training colleges for teachers.

- Patron Saint of Christian Teachers.

“The young should be able to see in your wisdom how they should
behave.”

- St. John Baptist de La Salle

9. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

● Born on January 12, 1746 at Zurich, Switzerland

● A Swiss social reformer and educator.
● Father of Pedagogy
Contributions to Education (theories, concepts and approaches )
- Pestalozzi believed in the ability of every individual human
being to learn and in the right of every individual to
education.
- Pestalozzi was particularly concerned about the condition
of the poor.
- He believed that empowering and ennobling every
individual in this way was the only way to improve society
and bring peace and security to the world.
“Thinking leads man to knowledge, he may see and hear and read and
learn, as much as he please; He will never know any of it, except that
which by thinking he has made the property of his mind.

-Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

10. Friedrich Frobel
- He was born on April 21, 1782 at
Oberweissbach, Germany
- A German educator and psychologist.
- Pioneer of kindergarten system
- Friedrich Froebel Theory
- Froebel gifts
“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for
it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.”

- Friedrich Froebel
11. Jean Jacques Rousseau

• He was born on June 28, 1712 at

Geneva, Switzerland.
• He was a Genevan philosopher,
writer and composer.
• Created the “Theory of Negative
Education”.
• Focus is on Naturalism.
• Known as the “Father of early
childhood education”.
“The great secret of education is to use exercise of mind and body as
relaxation one to the other.”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

 12. Johann Herbart
- Born on May 4, 1776 at Oldenburg, Germany.

- Founding father of psychology and

educational theory

- conceptualized the “Herbatian Method”

“In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring.”
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
 13. Pedro Poveda
- He was born on December 3, 1874
- a Spanish priest, humanitarian, educator
martyr.
- founded St. Teresa of Avila Academy in
Oviedo.
- founder of Teresian Association.
- He became a Patron Saint and was
canonized year 2003.
“It is not necessary to be rich to be able to give, being good suffices.”

-St. Pedro Poveda

 14. John Henry Newman

- Born on February 21, 1801 at London.

- an English theologian, poet and priest.

- emphasized the idea of Liberal Education.

“When, then, we speak of the communication of Knowledge as being
Education, we thereby really imply that the knowledge is a state or
condition of mind.”

- Cardinal John Henry Newman

 15. John Dewey
- He was born on October 10, 1859 at
Burlington, United States.

- an American philosopher, psychologist and

educational reformer.

- argued that curriculum should be relevant

to student’s lives.
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

- John Dewey
16. Maria Montessori

- She was born on August 31, 1870 at Chiaravalle,

Italy.
- First female doctor in Italy.
- Director of Orthophrenic School in Italy.
- developed the “Education for Peace” program
“The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at
preparing him for school, but for life.”
-Maria Montessori
17. Herbert Spencer

● Born on April 27, 1820 at Derby, UK

● He was an English social scientist
● He brought Science into the curriculum of schools.
● critic of religion and other fields of humanities.
“ The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”

- Herbert Spencer
 18. Paulo Freire

- He was born on September 19, 1921 at Recife,

State of Pernambuco, Brazil.

- He was a lawyer, school teacher and director.

- He was known for his work “Pedagogy of the

Oppressed”.
 “Education is the practice of freedom, the means by which men and
women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how
to participate in the transformation of their worl.”
- Paulo Freire
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