Vasyl Olexandrovych Sukhomlynsky was a Ukrainian humanistic educator in the Soviet Union who saw the aim of education in producing a truly humane being.
20 Facts About Vasyl Sukhomlynsky
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In 1938 Sukhomlynsky enrolled into the Poltava Pedagogical Institute out of which he graduated the same year.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky was transferred to a military hospital in the Ural Mountains where he continued his medical treatment.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky was appointed a principal of a middle school in the town of Uva.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky learned that his wife and young son had been tortured by the Gestapo.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky was appointed as a director of the Regional People's Education.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky taught his students that the most precious thing in life is a human being and that there is no greater honor than to bring joy to other people.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky taught them that to bring joy to other people, and especially to their families, they should strive to create beauty in themselves and in the environment.
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The foundation of all personal growth is health, and Vasyl Sukhomlynsky gave a great deal of his attention to ensuring that children enjoyed optimum health, especially in early childhood, when character is formed.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky took children out into nature often, combining physical exercise with lessons in thought and in the appreciation of beauty.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky sought to prolong children's childhood, to keep them optimistic and open to the world, to preserve the freshness of their emotional responses to the world.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky showed them that although they were small, they could do a lot to care for the environment in which they lived and to bring happiness to the people they met.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky sought to refine their sense of beauty, being very selective in the impressions he fed to their young minds.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky took them to the most beautiful natural settings he could find.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky taught them to listen to the music of nature, the rustle of grasses and of leaves, the song of the lark.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky played them music inspired by such natural sounds, and showed them paintings of natural beauty.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky did not swamp them with a surfeit of images and sounds, but allowed each new exposure to beauty to be memorable.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky taught them to become more aware of the inner world of other people, to read others' eyes, to recognize feelings of joy, of sorrow or confusion.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky tried to ensure that children took joy home from school to their families, to ensure that every child uncovered some latent talent or ability at which they could excel.
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Vasyl Sukhomlynsky was a recipient of two Orders of Lenin, Order of the Red Star, Ushinsky and Makarenko Medals.