A.I. Lyubzhin. The history of the Russian school. Volume I. Russian School of the XVIII century. Books I, II. - M.: Nikaya, 2014. - 752 + 656 p. Huge volumes on the history of the Russian school, more than a thousand pages only about the XVIII century, there is simply nothing comparable on this subject, so the book is non -alternative to everyone who is interested in the history of education in Russia - it is certainly worth reading it.

About the philosophy of age Print Elena Kosilova Egocentric and eccentric subjects We define the subject as such an essence that is able to freely and consciously make decisions in the field of thought and in the field of action. This definition can only be a worker, since for strictness it requires all related definitions, especially the definition of freedom of thought.

As explained to you in childhood, life is the only and unique, since there is no other, it will not and cannot be - diverse and unpredictable, and at the same time is secretive and stingy, since it hides unlimited possibilities, but establishes all kinds of restrictions.

If you ask the first person oncoming, why do you need to teach children at school, then the answer is, if not immediately, then after one or two clarifying the questions (such as “teach to read-write-read? And why?”, Etc.)-almost certainly reduced to the thesis: to prepare them for an independent life in modern society.

Today's youth: Early matured or infantile? Poll June 30 - July 1, 2014. 100 settlements, 43 subjects of the Russian Federation, 1,500 respondents Figure 1. Data in % of groups In Russian society, as we see, there is no dominant opinion regarding the pace of growing up the younger generation (see Fig. 1), although they believe that today's young people grow up at an earlier age than their parents, are still slightly more than holding the opposite opinion.

Letters were left to us by war: In them she is on the wiped sheets Pencil-bastard Described herself in a nutshell ... Terenty Travnik [2] There were still letters from that war, Afghan ... But these letters are not from the past. They are about the present - about the eternal present. Letters of conscience about the great and heroic deed of a simple soldier, a peaceman warrior, letters of a sons of love for his mother. These letters live in us.

Poll June 30 - July 1, 2014. 100 settlements, 43 subjects of the Russian Federation, 1,500 respondents The boundary of adulthood is not the easiest topic for a mass survey. The achievement of adulthood is usually associated with a certain age line, and with certain event, biographical milestones, and with a certain stage of personal maturation. These are not alternative, competing, but complementary perception angles.

1. Plato to me a friend ... Round ignorance is not the most abundant evil : the accumulation of poorly learned knowledge is much worse. Plato I On March 29, 1870, a student of the 6th grade (Sekostan) of the Vienna Academic Gymnasium Tomash Masarik was admitted to the Slavic Academic Circle in Vienna. Although only students could be members of the “academic” circle, an exception was made for the twenty -year -old gymnasium student Masarik.

In traditional Japan, old age not burdened by diseases was understood as the happiest time of life. Lack of duties, free time, respect and care from others did old age sometimes desired. But the path to old age lay through childhood, youth, youth and maturity. In this article, we describe the age gradations adopted in traditional Japan, we consider the rights and obligations of each age category.

Print Mikhail Epstein , Sergey Yuryenen We publish a fragment from the book "Encyclopedia of Youth" (2009). This is a joint autobiography of the writer Sergei Yuryenen and philologist and philosopher Mikhail Epstein. Their friendship began in 1967, in the first year of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, and lasts more than forty years, now in the United States.

After the unexpected death of Boris Dubin, I could not remember when I saw him for the first time. Probably briefly, in the mid -seventies, when Olga Sedakova read her poems in the workshop of one of the friends, and he was among the audience. I remember exactly that she had mentioned Borya before, always responding to him, like our other common acquaintances, with great sympathy. In the early eighties, we met closer.

Print Viktor Bochenkov Almost ten years ago, I studied in the State Archive of the Russian Federation the correspondence of a public figure and publicist Terthi Filippov with the Old Believer writer Ilarion Kabanov, also known from the pseudonym Xenos (which means “wanderer” in Greek). Subsequently, it was published in the first issue of the almanac "during it ...".

From the history of childhood study Print Oleg Yanitsky In the early 1920s, the Russian teacher and psychoanalyst Vera Fedorovna Schmidt (1889-1937) conducted a microopsychological study of childhood, which still remains not repeated. This is the diary of her observations for the development of her son almost from the day of his birth to the age of three, which she led while working in the orphanage of the International Solidarity in Moscow.

"Domestic notes": What is adulthood? What criteria to determine it? How did the ideas about maturity have changed since the appearance of the concept of childhood? How fair the hypothesis is that today the boundaries of maturity are parted, and if it is fair, then why is this happening? Lyudmila Petranovskaya: There are a lot of answers to the question of which person can be considered adults and mature.

How does a person differ from animals-including his closest relatives? Most will immediately call the absence of the tail, poorly developed wool, straightforwardness, articulate speech, the use of guns ... As for the tail, this is, of course, a misunderstanding: it does not only do not have it, but all of the anthropoid monkeys.