Selected Works of V. A. Sukhomlinsky (Five-Volume Edition). Volume 4

Author: Cai Ting, Wang Yigao, and Zhu Jing, editors
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Publishing Date: 2001-08-01
Features: My School is a book written by Sukhomlinsky based on his personal experience. To some extent, it is a summary of the author's 33 years of teaching at Pavlovskaya Secondary School, including 26 years as its principal. The book has been reprinted multiple times within the Soviet Union and has also been published in various languages abroad. Conversations with a School Principal is widely recognized as one of Sukhomlinsky's representative works as an educator. In this book, he not only summarizes his experience as a secondary school principal but also extensively explores various aspects of educational theory. Sukhomlinsky's statement, "The leadership of a school is primarily the leadership of educational ideas, secondly the leadership of administration," has become a widely circulated maxim. It reveals the fundamental principles of leading a school and reflects the dominant ideology of the book. The author closely links theory and practice, writing many profound insights in the form of conversations.