Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky was born in the city of Tula. Originally from the nobility, but until eleven years of study took place at home. Then he was enrolled in the third grade of the gymnasium. In one thousand eight hundred and forty years, he submits documents for admission to the legal department of Moscow University. Thus began the unusual and interesting life of a teacher. Ushinsky, whose biography will be examined in more detail, devoted his entire destiny to teaching, considering this case the most important of all.
Mature years. Yaroslavl
Six years after studying at the University, Ushinsky is offered a position
professors in economics and finance at the Yaroslavl Demidov Law Lyceum. With his entertaining lectures, he earned the full confidence and even admiration from the majority of students. He devoted some time in his pedagogical activity to the advancement of natural science and historical knowledge, using for this purpose the position of editor of a local newspaper, which he had occupied for several months in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. But Ushinsky was not limited to the issues of pedagogical activity and the post of editor, his biography is therefore replete with various events. Engaged in teaching, Ushinsky could perfect the experience and knowledge gained during the training process. Thanks to which he was able to improve many pedagogical methods used earlier. But this ends the Yaroslavl period in the fate of Konstantin Ushinsky, whose biography was replenished with hostility and misunderstanding on the part of the authorities and the love of ordinary people. He was soon suspected of sympathizing with revolutionary views and fired from his job.
Petersburg
Ushinsky moves to St. Petersburg. And it is in this city that a new period begins,
when Ushinsky, whose biography is filled with new events and experiences, will be forced to leave his homeland in connection with the events listed below. In St. Petersburg, he writes useful articles in the field of pedagogy and education for various magazines, and also teaches literature and geography at the Gatchina Orphan Institute. In addition, the Smolny Institute inspects . But in a new place there were people dissatisfied with the progressive ideas of the teacher. He is again fired from his job, which forces Konstantin Dmitrievich to engage in literary and pedagogical activities, which he devoted his last years of his life to. Immediately after dismissal from work, the teacher decides to go abroad and goes on a long trip lasting more than five years in Europe. There he studied educational institutions, trying to draw from their device what could become useful and applicable in such institutions in Russia. Thus, K. D.
Ushinsky, whose biography was quite diverse, was forced to transfer all his experience to books, since he could not devote himself entirely to his favorite business - pedagogy, due to obstacles posed by the authorities. The main work in Ushinsky’s pedagogical activity was the book on pedagogy - “Man as a subject of education, the experience of pedagogical anthropology”, in which he tried to generalize and pass on the accumulated knowledge to subsequent generations. This work ends the life of Ushinsky.
Death
Ushinsky died on the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy. So Konstantin Ushinsky dies, whose biography will remain an example for imitation of hundreds of teachers around the world for a long time to come.