This is the Czech educator? I just looked him up in Chamber's Biolgraphical. It's a reasonable length entry. Not much about ideas, just "a pioneer of new language teaching methods" and "planning a Baconian College of all the sciences". It says 'Orbis Sensualium Pictus' was the first foreign language textbook to use pictures as a visual aid.
(Will Eisner often talked about the US military doing a study on how to teach and train, and finding that comics were best. Looks like Comenius was ahead of them.)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)