Korchak brief biography

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After graduating from the gymnasium, he becomes a student at the Faculty of Medicine of the Warsaw University. From the first year, he begins active journalistic activity under the pseudonym Janusz Korchak. In the same year, he participates in the Russian-Japanese war as a doctor of the field hospital. Upon returning from the war, he works in one of the children's clinics.

In this story, Korchak first spoke about education. Korchak enters the path of reformation not only as a pediatrician, but also as a writer, journalist, public figure, teacher. He began, he sees in a cardinal transformation of children's education. In - gg. Korchak works as a teacher in children's summer colonies, where the main contingent is orphans and children from poor families.

Later in the book “King Matius the First,” he will write: “Reformers await a bad end. Only after their death do people begin to see that they were right, and they erect monuments to them. ” Korchak actually refuses the doctor’s career and becomes the director of the “House of Orphan”, who has been led by more than thirty years, until the end of his life. In the terrible years of the First World War, one of the main pedagogical books of Korchak is born - “How to Love the Child”, which became his life credo.

For twenty years, between the two world wars, Korchak became the brain center and the soul of two shelters - “our house” and “house of orphans”, where it creates a children's republic, a cell of equality and justice. In addition to working with children, Korchak embodies his experience in books. The best of them: “Educational moments”, the program book - “The right of a child to respect”, “Rules of life” by a real event in the world of literature is the new books of Korchak: the dilogy “King Matius I”, addressed to children and adults and translated into all languages ​​of the world, and “King Matius on a inhabid island” brought this masterpiece and allowed him to occupy world fame and allowed him to occupy him The works are worthy of the best philosophical fairy tales.

Korchak requires recognition of equivalentness and self -worth of the personality of the child, recognizing him the right to individuality. For the first time in the history of pedagogy, Korchak creates an elected children's Sejm, a friendly court and judicial council in the “Orphan House”, the main tasks of which were not coercion, but the education of self -awareness.

Above all, the ability to reflect here, the ability to treat yourself critically. When Hitler invaded Poland and Warsaw was occupied, Korchak stayed with his wards. Here are the latest records from the famous “Diary”, which he kept in a ghetto, miraculously saved by his disciples. I would like to die, maintaining the presence of the spirit in full consciousness.

I don’t know what I would say goodbye to the children. I would only like to say: choose your own path. " His diary is a tragic and no matter what a bright and executed faith in people is a document of the era. The last march of the children of the “House of Orphans” on the platform to the wagons that took them to death turned into a tragic procession. And a few days later, in a concentration camp, Treblinka Korczak, along with his children, entered the gas chamber.

At the site of Korchak’s death, in Treblink there is a large stone. It has a short inscription: "Yanush Korchak and children." This event was noted by children and adults throughout the Earth. The procession of Korchak in the world continues.