About pantikape and history lessons
The school called him "professor."He was wearing glasses, he could barely reach fours in physical culture, in his hands invariably - a book. He argued with his teachers, did not walk in the courtyard. .. In the fifth grade I entered a circle that studied ancient history. In the sixth I was looking for an ancient man in the Moscow suburbs. And after the seventh I went with an expedition from the museum to the Kerch peninsula to dig ancient Panticapaeum, the capital of the ancient Bosporus kingdom.
Well, what's interesting, in your Panticapaeum? "The boys laughed." Shards of all kinds. .. You'll think about it! We go to football better, professor. .
Mother sighed:
- I would be in the model aircraft, you all know how!
He persistently collected books that set out the history of society. To her questions about the future repeated the same thing: "I'll go to the archaeologists."
The hobby, however, has not weakened over the years.
Museum, a circle of history, a range of extracurricular activities of a child, a teenager - all this should be kept in the field of your vision. Especially when it comes to history. Patriotism is inconceivable without a deep knowledge of the great, glorious, heroic history of our Motherland. Even Alexander Pushkin said: "Respect for the past - this is a feature that distinguishes education from savagery."
Today there is a surge in interest in history. Numerous articles in newspapers and magazines, appearances on the television screen, calling for careful attitude to the monuments of history, not to allow their destruction. And the children with children's spontaneity take these heated debates and problems to heart. It's good to talk with children in the family on the same issues, when parents are trying to ensure that the past of the country does not remain a blank sheet for the son or daughter.
Remember, we talked about the family of Marx? About how his daughter Jennie herself studied the events of a thousand years ago, as well as those that were committed in different countries in her time. All this formed the views of the girl, made Jenny a comprehensively developed person, a fighter for revolutionary ideals. Nowadays the younger generation is also looking for answers to questions of great historical significance. At home, children often puzzle their parents categorically: either - or. One of the modern playwrights - V. Arro, the author of many plays, very correctly noted: "... the feeling of love for one's society is brought up not only by direct appeals to love, participate, be useful, but very complex, diverse, mediated ways. .."
If the literature does not fall into your child's hands, capable of capturing him with glorious pages of the past, that will be your trouble. Perhaps the same Jenny Marx looked in the books of his father, heard arguments about the burning problems of the development of modern society - the inquisitive soul of a teenager could not help but become interested in them. And vice versa. Do not open with curiosity your son "Diplomacy of Ancient Rus" A. Sakharov, if it is not in the house. Or the adventure story of S. Golitsyn "The Mystery of the Old Radul" - about the fascinating journey into which the legendary pioneers called. Yes, it is not very interesting historical literature published by our publishers, in particular, the "Young Guard"!In 1987, for example, here came out a collection of essays and articles "The Roads of Milleniums", telling both about the mystery of the past, and about those that are still waiting for their discoverers.
But we already talked about books in detail earlier. Now we just want to remind you that we parents are the same pilots in the sea of books. On what expanses our son, our daughter will go, that they will be able to see what will be hurried on all sails, whether they will run aground or, driven by a fresh wind, they will plow the vast expanses without fear of depths or the ninth shaft, largely depends on uswith you.
In the process of our parents' history lessons, children have their own convictions and opinions. And without him in life can not do - even my mother and father will not help. In family conversations, the children acquire the skills of independent judgments. If, of course, for those conversations are allocated those rare minutes when the TV is turned off. In other families, adults communicate with children, as usual, before the blue screen, gambling commenting on a football or hockey match or predicting the turns of the intrigue of another detective. In such cases, there is no time to think about the past and the future, the worldview of children.
Parents, who almost from the birth of their son or daughter are worried about their future fate, will not spare time to discuss with them books, plays, life situations. Especially now, when we fearfully notice: the younger generation is not so eagerly reaching for the book, the more serious, creating, trying to express itself, various "informal associations".In the fact that among young citizens are not so rare drug addicts, alcoholics, maybe we are guilty, and we are with you? Did not they find a common language with teenagers in time, did not overcome the estrangement strips? Every day the misunderstanding deepened. There were no common themes that could bring people closer together.
Or another trouble. The boys expected us to frankly explain what seemed to them the most important, and we limited ourselves to slogans, ready phrases, and did not reflect with them. Do not hurt about the fate of the Fatherland. Someone will probably object: I'm supposed to give my life for my Motherland. Do not doubt his sincerity. But sometimes it's easier to give life away than not to be silent about the troubles of the country, to spare no effort to prevent them, to fight daily to completely cleanse our society of thieves and bribe-takers, rascals and bureaucrats, all sorts of scoundrels ready to trample all the sacred for their own good.
The child is looking for the truth. He needs the truth. He sensitively catches falsehood. The author of books for children, including the famous "Kortika", A. Rybakov, in one of his speeches in the press, as if he addressed you and me: "What kind of spiritual development can we talk about if a teenager who is interested in the history of his country runs into all the time... to defaults. "That's why there are undesirable phenomena in the youth environment, there is a widening gap between children and parents, who primarily care about feeding their child.
How could the guys in such a situation show their love for the country, its history, independently of you, if it required a certain action? In Leningrad, for example, on October 19, 1986 schoolchildren rushed to where exactly on the day of the anniversary of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum metrostroy, at the behest of an incredible coincidence, decided to break Delvig's house. By alternately reading the poems of Pushkin and Lermontov, the guys were able to prevent the unjustifiable destruction of the historical monument by a kind of protest. How proud were the children by their actions: perhaps, for the first time on their own experience, they realized that being a patriot is not just talking beautiful words, but acting.
That boy, who was called "professor" at school, after the tenth grade went to work. Still fascinated by archeology, he dreams of going to university at the Faculty of History. However, in the time of grandiose changes in our society, when young people are expected to make great achievements, work on conscience, this young man now worries more about the present day than far from us. In the evening, after classes on the courses, he always returns with a pack of fresh newspapers, new magazines, books. Do not miss the speeches of distinguished scientists, cultural figures, writers, in particular D. Likhachev, Ch. Aitmatov, Yu. Afanasyev, tells about all the parents, advising, affirming his opinion on the past and current events.
The young man is confidently oriented in the turbulent course of life, without fear of whirlpools, muddy creeks, clearly determining where to swim. Much credit for the adults who carefully directed the teenager, so as not to avoid him from the chosen fairway. And the "professor" boy did not lose the childhood enthusiasm born at the moment when he first crossed the threshold of the museum with his parents, for the first time saw excavations of the ancient Chersonesos in Sevastopol.