The most famous work by Anton Semenovich Makarenko.
“PEDAGOGICAL POEM”—the story of the birth and development of the children’s colony named after Gorky, which the author created and led in the 1920s.
This book opened a new page in the history of pedagogy and became a good teaching manual for every parent, teacher, mentor—for anyone engaged in a difficult and thankless task: raising a person.
And at the same time, it is a novel-in-poem with vivid human images, dynamic narration, funny situations, and colorful dialogues that you read in one sitting.
The film of the same name, directed by Soviet directors Alexey Maslyukov and Mechisлава Mayevskaya, in 1956 participated in the competition program of the Cannes Film Festival.
“This is a true pedagogical poem, an inspired book about reshaping the psyche. Like “Emile” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, it is a step in the development of the science of education”.
Maxim Gorky, 1933
“I think no history of universal literature—even the most biased, even one marked by anti-Soviet prejudices—will be able from now on to ignore ‘The Pedagogical Poem’ without breaking propriety. For this book is unprecedented; it is a book of a new type.”
Louis Aragon, 1955
The book is read by a popular artist and dubbing actor Mikhail Roslyakov.