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1582
Richard Mulcaster
He was a teacher in Elizabeth London who spoke up eloquently for the use of English in his First part of the Elementaire. -
Wolfgang Ratke
Opened the first German mother tongue school at Koethen in Saxony. -
Comenius
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 -
Joshua Poole
He said that when he comes to the construing of a Latin author, he shall from the signification of his words in construing. -
John Locke
he elabotaed multiple points in his book Some Thoughts Concerning Education. -
Daniel Duncan
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. -
Rousseau
Rousseau published Emile and Education. -
Frenchman and Saveur
Frenchman and Lambert Sauveur founded the Direct Method. -
Stanley Leathes
Was set up by the Board of Education to look into the whole question of modern studies including the future of foreign languages. -
William Penfield
He supported the view that pre-adolescent children were particulary well-suited to the acquisition of foreign languages. -
20%
Foreign languages were reserved for bright adolescents, the top 20% or so who had passed the entrance test to the grammar schools .
