Ratich, Wolfgang, German educationalist, born in Wilster (Holstein); a forerunner of Comenius; his theory of education, which in his hands proved a failure, was based on Baconian principles; proceeded from things to names, and from the mother tongue to foreign ones (1571‒1635).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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