Simion Mehedinți – pedagog creștin
Simion Mehedinți - Christian teacher

Author(s): Ioan Puiu
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: Christian teaching; Simion Mehedinti; education principles; youth mission;
Summary/Abstract: Raised in the spirit of the Holy Gospel by his parents, studying at highschool from Roman and Bucuresti, well known then as the creator of Romanian geography teaching, important educator and science man, Simion Mehedinti will preach through his writings and his entire life that, in his opinion, only the Church’s teaching can fully train a man so that he can succeed in life and to gain eternity. Well knowing that the duty of a Christian is to multiply talents, which he plenty had, Simion Mehedinti focused his writings on supporting the youth training so they would gain solid information about the history of their nation, continuously working to improve their professional and moral life and to become the luminary of their nation. Simion Mehedinti is convinced by the fact that the man who believes in God manages to help his brother to reach his best and through this the entire nation can be raised from indifference and the ordinary life. Taking in consideration Simion’s Mehedinti belief that “literature and art are not just useless play, but the supreme effort to remove the dissonances of ordinary life and to gradually lift the soul of the nation” we can understand why most of his work is dedicated to the values of Christianity. The purpose of this study is to answer to several questions like: How was Mehedinti's pedagogy understood by his contemporaries? What Christian pedagogical principles can be found in the works of scholar Mehedinți? What are the qualities of a good educator?

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