Education according Aleksey S. Khomyakov (1804–1860)

Abstract

Aleksey Khomyakov (1804–1860) is one of the most outstanding Russian thinkers of the mid-nineteenth century, the main representative of the Slavophile movement, an intellectual movement in Russian political, social and philosophical thought that originated in Russia at the first half of the 19th century. Khomyakov, a philosopher, theologian, poet, publicist and social activist at the end of the 1850s, who was comprehensively educated, and gifted with exceptional mental acuity and erudition, focused his attention on pedagogical matters as was the case with several other representatives of the Russian intelligentsia. He included his reflections on this topic in an article entitled On Public Education in Russia, which appeared in 1858. Khomyakov presented in it his views on questions related to education, teaching and the priorities of the educational policy in Russia. The presented article is one of the most import ant source texts on the history of Russian pedagogy in the mid-nineteenth century. This is the first translation into Polish.