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Introduction
As we wrangle repeatedly over the purposes of schooling and who gets to define them, what might we gain by taking a moment to listen to a thoughtful voice from a place and time not defined by our own mix of prejudices? I invite you to listen to such a voice, one speaking from a different era amid different anxieties and in a different idiom yet addressing questions that remain pressing. It is a voice shaped by a lifetime of educational engagement and reflection in the constant shadow of violence, yet, to the last, invested in the pursuit of delight. The voice belongs to Jan Amos Komenský, a Moravian reformer, educator, and scholar more widely known to posterity as John Amos Comenius and regularly claimed (with varying plausibility) as a founding father of numerous features of modern education.1 I focus here on what he thought schools are for.
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