Ushinsky: biography of the great teacher

Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky was born in the city of Tula. Originally from the nobility, but until eleven years of training took place at home. Then he was enrolled in the third grade of the gymnasium. In one thousand eight hundred and forty year he submits documents for admission to the legal department of Moscow University. So began the unusual and interesting life of the teacher. Ushinsky, whose biography will be examined in more detail, devoted his whole destiny to teaching, considering this the most important of all.

Mature years. Yaroslavl

Six years after his studies at Ushinsky University, they offer a position
Professor in economics and finance in the Yaroslavl Demidov legal lyceum. With his entertaining lectures, he earned full confidence and even admiration from the majority of students. For a certain period of time in his pedagogical activity, he gave the advancement of natural and historical knowledge, using for this purpose the position of the editor of a local newspaper, which he occupied for several months in the year eighteen forty-eight. However, Ushinsky did not limit himself to issues of pedagogical activity and editorial post, his biography is full of various events. While engaging in teaching, Ushinsky could bring to perfection his experience and knowledge. Due to this I was able to improve many pedagogical methods used earlier. But this ends the Yaroslavl period in the fate of Konstantin Ushinsky, whose biography has been enriched with hostility and misunderstanding by the authorities and the love of ordinary people. He was soon suspected of sympathy for revolutionary views and dismissed from his job.

St. Petersburg

Ushinsky moved to Petersburg. And it is in this city that a new period begins,
When Ushinsky, whose biography is full of new events and impressions, will be forced to leave his native land in connection with the events listed below. In St. Petersburg, he writes useful articles in the field of pedagogy and education for various journals, and also teaches literature and geography at the Gatchina Orphan Institute. In addition, inspects the Smolny Institute. But in a new place there were people who were dissatisfied with the progressive ideas of the teacher. He is again dismissed from his job, which forces Konstantin Dmitrievich to engage in literary and pedagogical activities, which he devoted his last years of life. Immediately after dismissal from work, the educator decides to go abroad and travels to a long journey over Europe, which lasted more than five years. There he studied the educational institutions, trying to learn from their device what could be useful and applicable in such institutions in Russia. Thus, KD Ushinsky, whose biography was quite diverse, was forced to pass all his experience to books, as he could not fully devote himself to his favorite business - pedagogy, in connection with the obstacles created by the authorities. The main work in the pedagogical activity of Ushinsky was the book on pedagogy - "Man as an object of education, the experience of pedagogical anthropology," in which he tried to generalize and transfer the accumulated knowledge to subsequent generations. This work ends the life of Ushinsky.

Death

Ushinsky died on December 22, one thousand eight hundred and seventy years. Thus, Konstantin Ushinsky dies, whose biography will long remain an example for the imitation of hundreds of educators from all over the world.