Great Didactic

The Great Didactic or (Latin: Didactica Magna), full title (Latin: Didactica Magna, Universale Omnes Omnia Docendi Artificium Exhibens), The Great Didactic, The Whole Art of Teaching all Things to all Man, is a book written by Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian, John Amos Comenius[1][2] between 1627 and 1638 and first published in 1657.

The background to this high claim is the contemporary view that only an educated person is a human being.

Comenius thus represented an approach of optimistic anthropology, which sees something good in every human being and generally considers this to be expandable (educational).

In Comenius's words: We venture to promise a Great Didactic ... the whole art of teaching all things to all men, and indeed of teaching them with certainty, so that the result cannot fail to follow… Lastly, we wish to prove all this a priori, that is to say, from the unalterable nature of the universal art of founding universal schools.In the Great Didactic, he stated: “ ... not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school.”In The Great Didactic Comenius recommended learning from nature too, outside school contexts.

If a child is in a school, he argued that learning should extend beyond the classroom and take place in everyday life.