John Amos Comenius, the seventeenth century realist, and Francis Wayland Parker, the nineteenth century pragmatic idealist, presented new educational theories and practices. Both men, products of their own times, through their wide learning, great imagination and sympathy with the intellectual and social climate of their day, offered to the world a new outlook on education -- an education focused on the needs and the interests of children. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 1967. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Education.