Background
ZELENKO, Aleksandr was born on October 11, 1871.
ZELENKO, Aleksandr was born on October 11, 1871.
1892 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineer.
1900-1903 taught drawing at a Moscow high school. 1903-1904 studied child training and educational system in America. 1905 helped found children's summer labor colony at Shchyolkovo, near Moscow and Russia’s first children's club
1906 organized courses for adolescents at this club 1906, together with Shatskiy, founded “Settlement” Social, which opened workshops with the help of a subsidy from the Minister of Education. 1905-1909 taught on Prechistenka Workers’ Courses and at Sunday workers’ schools.
1909, after closure of “Settlement” Social and a period unter arTest, went to America. 1910 returned to Russia and worked for “Children’s Labor and Recreation” Social. Also worked for journals “Svobodnoye vospitaniye” and “Dlya narodnogo uchitelya”.
1911-1917 lecturer, Shanyavskiy People's University, Moscow. After 1917 October Revol research and teaching work at Institute of Methods of Extracurricular Work and various teachers’ training establishments. Worked for journal “Svobodnoye vospitaniye”.
1921-1923 member, Sciences Pedagogical Section, State Studies Council, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Education. 1947-1953 associate, Institute of Art Training, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.
Religious edicts impose irrational rules on people’s behaviour.
The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.