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Makarenko Anton Semyonovich (1888-1939)

Anton Semyonovich Makarenko, Russian teacher and social worker
He was the most influential educational theorist in the Soviet Union.

Makarenko studied at the Poltava Teachers’ Institute and graduated in 1917 with honours.

In the 1920 he organized the Gorky Colony, a rehabilitation settlement for children made homeless by the Russian Revolution and who roamed throughout the country in criminal gangs.

In 1931 he was appointed head of the Dzerzhinsky Commune, a penal institution for young offenders.

Makarenko was the author of several books on education, including «Pedagogicheskyа poema»(1933-35; An Epic of Education), which is an account of his work at the Gorky Colony, and «Kniga dlya roditeley» (1937, A Book for Parents).

Makarenko regarded work as basic to intellectual and moral development. Makarenko believed that all children should be assigned task requiring labour and should be given positions of responsibility, in order to learn the limitations of their individual rights and privileges.

Makarenko first principle of socialist upbringing was «The maximum possible demands with the maximum possible respect.»