Jean Piaget heralds Comenius as “the first to conceive a full scale science of education” and then goes on to make the remarkable assertion that “Comenius is thus among the authors who do not need to be corrected or, in reality, contradicted in order to bring them up to date, but merely to be translated and elaborated.” Let me suggest that Comenius is one figure who indisputably belongs to the whole Christian church. He would accept that. (Note his “Bequest of the Dying Mother” referred to in the