TITLE:
A Comparison of Comenius’s Pansophia Education and Kūkai’s Zenjin Education
AUTHORS:
Shuyi Wang, Liming Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Comenius, Kūkai, Pansophia Education, Zenjin Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.13 No.5,
May
31,
2022
ABSTRACT: In the history of education, Comenius, a Czech educator, put forward the idea of Pansophia education in the 17th century and put it into practicebriefly. In the 9th century Japan, a monk educator named Kūkai also implemented Zenjin education, which has many similarities with Pansophia education. Thecomparison between Pansophia education and Zenjin education is helpful to dialectically understand these two shining educational ideas in the history of education. Whether judged from content of education or target students of education, both Comenius’s Pansophia Education and Kūkai’s Zenjin education can be said to be idealistic education and their theory and practicearestill of great significance for the development of education in the presentworld.