Educational enlightenment of L.N. Tolstoy’s pedagogy

¹ Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University, Latin Languages Department, Tula, Russia
² Moscow City University, Institute of Foreign Languages, Department of French Language and Linguodidactics, Moscow, Russia
³ The Advanced Training and Professional Retraining Institute of the Education Professionals of Tula Region, Center for the Strategic Planning of the Education Development, Expertise and Scientific Advice, Tula, Russia

^* Corresponding author: danilovais@yandex.ru

Abstract

The reality of the modern educational environment and the development of the humanitarian, pedagogical knowledge about the environment are attributed to the experience of great minds of the past. Among them, L.N. Tolstoy’s personality and versatile heritage have amazed and inspired numerous pedagogical generations to come through the writer’s unparalleled educational ideas on the creation of popular (mass) schools. Just as Tolstoy’s educational ideas and experience are enriched by the legacy of French enlighteners, the authors axiologically actualize and rethink through the prism of modern education the pedagogical heritage and arguments that ensure the broad perception of educational problems and the understanding of the continuing mission and driving force of education for the transformation of modern society. In the context of the priority of the humanistic educational paradigm, the authors are convinced that the interaction presented in the article through the imaginary dialogue of generations of Russian and foreign teachers of the present and the past contributes to the growth of professional knowledge in the field of the history of pedagogy and education and comparative pedagogical studies. It unites people involved in today’s education, representatives of different socioand linguistic cultures, in striving towards enlightenment in the best traditions of Tolstoy’s education.