About Makarenko biography

Anton Makarenko is a world -famous Soviet teacher, teacher and writer. Brief information Anton Makarenko was born on March 13 of the year in the city of Belopolia Kharkov province, in the family of a carrier of wagon railway workshops. He had a sister who died in childhood, and brother Vitaliy, a White Guard officer, who later emigrated to France. In the year, Anton Semenovich entered the primary railway school.

Three years later, the Makarenko family moved to the city of Kryukov, where the future great teacher first graduated from a four -year school, and then brief pedagogical courses. For some time, Anton Makarenko worked there as a teacher. Due to vision problems, the young man was demobilized from the army. In the year, Anton Semenovich with a gold medal graduated from the Poltava teacher's institute, protecting a diploma on the crisis of modern pedagogy.

At that time, he headed the school at the Kryukovsky wagon workshops, and also played in an amateur theater. Two years later, Makarenko moved to the city of Poltava, not far from which he founded a labor colony for minor offenders. The great teacher headed this colony up to a year. Among the pupils of Anton Makarenko were the most “complex” children who could no longer live normally in society: young prostitutes, hooligans and thieves.

In the care of Anton Semenovich there were more than six hundred offenders. In the year, Makarenko became one of the leaders of the Dzerzhinsky children's labor community, after which he was transferred to the post of assistant chief of the department of labor colonies. Two years later, the teacher moved to Moscow. In recent years before his death, he was engaged in mainly literary work.

The teacher died on April 1. His educational theory, based on attracting to passive work, achieving visible goals, and bringing benefits to the whole team perfectly established itself in educational institutions of various types. It is easy to notice that the system of Anton Semenovich is based on the principles of democracy: general meeting, joint management, periodic change of detachments commanders and so on.

Democratic principles have become a stumbling block between the teacher and the Soviet government, for a long time Makarenko’s method was prohibited for use in the Soviet Union. The teacher appreciated order and discipline, he was ready to work hard, so Makarenko’s method is difficult to include in the framework of modern humanism. However, Anton Makarenko, of course, is a great humanist, if we recall the definition of the classical humanism of the Renaissance, whose task was the recognition of a person’s value as a person.

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