Zamknięcie Szkoły Głównej a rozwój samokształcenia na ziemiach polskich. Wybrane problemy
Closing of the Main School and the development of self-study in Poland. Selected problems

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns selected problems associated with the development of self-study afterclosing of the Main School in Warsaw in 1869. The need for self-study by the students of theMain School was associated, among other things, with the lack of qualified teaching staff.In connection with the development of the self-study movement in Poland, there evolved a typeof ‘private researcher’ who carried out research on the margins of paid work. In the circle offormer students and graduates of the School the best-known self-education initiatives were:“The Flying University”, “A guide for the self-taught” initiated by Stanisław Michalski, and Kasaim. Józefa Mianowskiego. In the article, reference is made, inter alia, to the pedagogical propositionsof Boleslaw Prus (who encouraged reading and self-study) and Adolf Dygasiński(who wrote “How to learn and how to teach others” – a guide for self-study). The article alsodiscusses the less known self-education initiatives, such as the activity of Stanisław Kramsztyk,Feliks Kucharzewski and Szymon Methal.

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