The book was written for the occasion of a special exhibition on Tolstoy at the British Library centring around little stories about their daily lives (‘essays’) written for Tolstoy by the pupils of St. Mark’s when he visited the London school on the 12 March 1861 and sent back for the first time from Russia. Tolstoy had been visiting schools in France and Germany as well to inform himself about teaching methods in Europe in order to establish schools for the children of the newly liberated serfs. St. Mark’s will have been one of the better ones but generally Tolstoy was deeply disappointed. He did not approve of the rigid methods almost universally employed: learning by rote, interrogation and humiliation of pupils, training to pass examinations … None of this Tolstoy considered to be education: by which he understood all those influences which develop the child’s mind and personality. In the schools he established in 1862 at Yasnaya Polyana the teacher should not teach from a position of authority and privilege but in the form of a dialog with the children. His experiment in education was violently attacked by the authorities and short-lived.
Lucas gives an informative and lively account of the appalling social conditions in Nineteenth-Century Dickensian England, his visit to St. Mark’s and the boys accounts of their morning and games (reproduced in facsimile) and Tolstoy’s educational experiments back in Russia and their suppression. This short unpretentious account centring on a day in Tolstoy’s life is well presented and richly illustrated. Recommended for all who are interested in the history of education and wondering about todays education in the UK - and not just here. (V-20)… (mer)
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Lucas gives an informative and lively account of the appalling social conditions in Nineteenth-Century Dickensian England, his visit to St. Mark’s and the boys accounts of their morning and games (reproduced in facsimile) and Tolstoy’s educational experiments back in Russia and their suppression. This short unpretentious account centring on a day in Tolstoy’s life is well presented and richly illustrated. Recommended for all who are interested in the history of education and wondering about todays education in the UK - and not just here. (V-20)… (mer)