Comenius: The Pedagogue of All Nations - Teri McCarthy

Teri McCarthy has traveled, taught, and conducted research in more than 50 countries. She taught in public universities internationally for over 30 years, including in China, Russia, and Afghanistan. From 2010 until 2017, she taught in Lithuania, including six years as associate professor at Lithuania University of Educational Sciences in Vilnius.

In 1928, the President of the Czechoslovak Republic, T.G. Masaryk, wrote, “Comenius was one of the first to demand an educational and cultural policy in the true sense of the word. Today he would have expressed himself as a believer in progress. From a practical point of view the rebirth was attained by education--by a new system of education. Thus Comenius became the teacher, the pedagogue, of all nations.” By looking at Comenius’s example and following his philosophy of education, we as Christian educators can help instigate real change in our institutions and in the lives of our students.