How to raise Mikhailo Lomonosov

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

While modern parents are testing the most progressive technologies for raising children on their children, let's recall Russian folk pedagogical traditions.

Let's start with the Pomor education system that gave Russia Mikhailo Lomonosov. Perhaps modern pedagogical methods contribute to the all-round development of the child and his integration into modern social realities, but the moral aspect is not in the foreground for them.

Pomors were the descendants of the ancient Novgorodians and Karelians, who had settled since the 12th century on the southwestern and southeastern coasts of the White Sea. From the ethnonym "Pomors" came the toponym of the south-western coast of the White Sea - the Pomor Coast. In the period from the 12th century to the 15th century, Pomorie was a colony of the Novgorod Republic, where most of the settlers came from. Such famous people as the scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, the sculptor Fyodor Shubin, the priest John of Kronstadt, as well as such explorers as Ermak Timofeevich, Semyon Dezhnev, Erofei Khabarov emerged from the Pomors. The permanent ruler of Alaska, Alexander Baranov, was also from the Pomors.

The main values, the upbringing of which the Pomor tradition was guided by, were respect for elders, respect for women, honesty and collectivism, hospitality, and self-esteem. Without these qualities, in the Pomeranian environment, a person was considered inferior and was not able to be part of the community.

At all times, the Pomor family was distinguished by high morality, respectful relations between parents and children, the desire to teach their children to read and write, to cultivate in them the ability to make independent judgments. Obviously, this is why the Pomor land for centuries has given birth to free-thinking, strong-willed, fearless people who are able to maintain their personal qualities in any life circumstances.

The traditional Pomor family has been the backbone of the social order in the Russian north for centuries. It differed from the traditional Russian family by complete equality between men and women, a well-functioning system of raising children (including compulsory literacy training) and a high level of morality.

The equality of men and women in Pomorie was due to the fact that Pomor men for centuries annually went to work, leaving the household to their wives. The Pomor "zhonki", who for a long time replaced the owners, were called "Bolshokhs", and all members of large Pomor families obeyed them unquestioningly. It was these self-confident, smart and literate northern women who were examples of independent behavior for the growing up Pomors.

Boys from childhood saw that a woman copes with the duties of the head of the family on an equal basis with men, that she is respected and obeyed by all relatives. Therefore, when they became men, young Pomors treated their own wives with respect. In the Pomeranian environment, the Russian word "baba" was not even used, which was considered humiliating. Pomors called women and are still called "jones".

Swearing in the Pomeranian community was strictly taboo. It is interesting that even in distant fields, in a purely male company, swearing was considered a great insult to society. Well, and only a madman could insert a strong word in the society of children or women.

Theft was completely absent among the Pomors, and quite recently houses in Pomorie were not locked. The owner only had to put a stick to the door, which meant that no unauthorized entry was allowed.

Everywhere in Pomorie there was a widespread "veneration of books", which children began to teach with the onset of adolescence - five years of age. In the Pomor people's calendar, a special date was even allocated for the beginning of literacy training - Naumov Day (December 14), when parents gave the alphabet to a five-year-old child for the first time. Upon reaching adolescence, many young Pomors went to two or three years of training in local Old Believer monasteries.

The lifestyle of the Pomor family was an educational and educational space in which traditions and customs were formed, passed on, preserved and developed from generation to generation. This microenvironment contributed to both the spontaneous and purposeful formation of the personality of the Pomor. The special power of the influence of these traditions and norms was that a child from early childhood mastered them imperceptibly for himself, naturally and simply, much earlier than he began to understand their content and meaning. One of the main features of Pomorie was that up to the beginning of the 20th century, a “big” family was traditionally preserved here.