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He was a teacher in Elizabeth London who spoke up eloquently for the use of English in his First part of the Elementaire.
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Opened the first German mother tongue school at Koethen in Saxony.
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Rakte's follower, the great Comenius, underlined the central role of the mother tongue in the child's exploration of meaning in his Great Didactic
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He said that when he comes to the construing of a Latin author, he shall from the signification of his words in construing.
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he elabotaed multiple points in his book Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
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He said that the learning of dead languages is a yoke that neither we nor our fore-fathers could ever bear when we were children.
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Rousseau published Emile and Education.
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Frenchman and Lambert Sauveur founded the Direct Method.
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Was set up by the Board of Education to look into the whole question of modern studies including the future of foreign languages.
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He supported the view that pre-adolescent children were particulary well-suited to the acquisition of foreign languages.
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Foreign languages were reserved for bright adolescents, the top 20% or so who had passed the entrance test to the grammar schools .
