MULCASTER.
1. His principles of education as identical with the best of to-day.
2. His recognition of the need for trained teachers.
RATKE.
1. His practical failure due to the characteristics of the man, not to faults in his principles of education.
2. Nine cardinal principles of didactics as gathered from his writings upon method.
COMENIUS.
1. The first to treat education in a scientific spirit.
2. Based educational method upon an understanding of the nature of the child.
3. Insisted upon the direct study of external Nature, and upon the learning of words only in connection with things.