A Comparison of Comenius’s Pansophia Education and Kūkai’s Zenjin Education
- 1 Center for International Education and Exchange, Baoding University, Baoding, China
- 2 School of Foreign Languages Education and Business English, Baoding University, Baoding, China
Abstract
In the history of education, Comenius, a Czech educator, put forward the idea of Pansophia education in the 17th century and put it into practice briefly. In the 9th century Japan, a monk educator named Kūkai also implemented Zenjin education, which has many similarities with Pansophia education. Thecomparison between Pansophia education and Zenjin education is helpful to dialectically understand these two shining educational ideas in the history of education. Whether judged from content of education or target students of education, both Comenius’s Pansophia Education and Kūkai’s Zenjin education can be said to be idealistic education and their theory and practice are still of great significance for the development of education in the present world.
- Comenius (1999). Didactica Magna. Beijing: Education and Science Press.
- Jiang, W. M. (1984). The Basic Meaning and Historical Status of Comenius’ Teaching Theory. Journal of Hebei University, 2, 53-59.
- Ren, Z. Y. (2001). Selected Works on Modern Western Education. Beijing: People’s Education Press.
- Saito, A. (1978). Research on the History of Buddhist Education in Japan: The Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Modern Ages. Tokyo: National Book Publishing Association, 63.
- Karasawa, T. (1984). Educators in Illustration. Tokyo: Gyousei, 28.
- Teng, D. C. (2005). General History of Foreign Education. Jinan: Shandong Education Press.
- Teruhiro, W., & Yukatsu, M. (1965). Japanese Classical Literature 71: The Three Teachings and Sexual Essays Collection. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.
- Wang, T. Y., Xia, Z. L., & Zhu, M. Y. (2010). History of Foreign Education. Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press, 123-124.
- Zhao, X. L. (2003). Commentary on Foreign Educators. Shanghai: Shanghai Education Press.