My Opinion on 5 Works about Education, Teaching, and Learning - Volume 6
In this volume we visit pre-WW2 Poland, pre-communist revolution Russia, post-revolutionary war United States, England between the world wars, and modern China. It's a journey. 'Janusz Korczak: The Man Who Knew How to Love Children' by Itzchak Belfer 2018 Belfer grew up in an orphanage in Poland started and run by Henryk Goldszmit and Stefania Wilczynska in the early 1900s. Goldszmit was famous under the pen name Janusz Korczak for a few successful children's books he wrote, including one that's similar to Harry Potter. Korczak was also a medical doctor. When the Nazis were rounding up Jews in Poland Korczak could have gotten out because he was famous and had offers, but he would have had to abandon the kids, about 200 of them. He and Stefa stayed with the kids, went to Treblinka with them, and died. Belfer had fled Poland for Russia two years earlier when he was 16, kids generally left the orphan school at 14. Korczak's organization is astounding. He ran the or...