Comenius' School of Infancy/Dedication

by Johan Amos Comenius

Dedication.

 

To

 

PIOUS CHRISTIAN PARENTS, GUARDIANS, TEACHERS,
AND ALL UPON WHOM THE CHARGE OF
CHILDREN IS INCUMBENT,

GREETING:^[1]

Beloved,

 

Purposing to communicate something to you all respecting your duty, three things seem necessary to be premised:

I. The preciousness of the treasure which God bestows on those to whom He entrusts the pledges of life.

II. To what end or purpose He confers those pledges, and to what objects education ought to be directed.

III. That youth demand good education so greatly that, failing it, they must of necessity be lost.

Having established these three principles, I shall proceed to my purpose, and explain in order the departments of your solicitude respecting this early age.

JOHN AMOS COMENIUS.

 

1. Since the value of the School of Infancy is so largely historical, the editor has thought best to give this quaint dedication, and to retain in the body of the book many quaint and even obsolete expressions.