Background
FORTUNATOV, Aleksandr was born on July 12, 1884.
FORTUNATOV, Aleksandr was born on July 12, 1884.
1908 graduate History and Philology Department, Moscow University. Cdreer 1908 taught history and lit at Prechistenskiy workers’ courses. Then teacher, private girls’ secondary schools.
1919-1925 associate of South. T. Shatskiy at 1st Education Experimental Station, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Education. Head, teachers' extra-scholastic work. Specialized in problems of art training.
1926-1939 taught history, lit and pedag at teachers’ training technicums. Simultaneously instructing and research work at higher educational institutions: Shanyavskiy People's University. Moscow State University.
Institute of History, Russian Association of Social Sciences Research Institutes. From 1939 lecturer, from 1940 head, Chair of History, and from 1947 dean, History Department, Mosow’s Potyomkin State Teachers’ Training Institute. In his works on development of elementary schooling and methods of teaching history in secondary schools stressed the importance of visual-aids and utilization of artistic images in tuition.
Wrote a number of works on the history of labor schools, etc-.
All religions persuade people to rely on outside authority, thus preventing them to become self-reliant.
Individuals have rights to express freedom if it safeguarde the interests of a collective.