Orthodox Teaching Ideas in Education in Russia before the XVIII Century (on Materials of Folk Oral Tradition and Old Works)
The article presents the results of a study on the establishment and development of the system of education in Russia before the XVIII century. It is shown that by the beginning of XVIII century in the Russian state there was an original true Russian Orthodox paradigm of education based on the deep traditions of folk and Orthodox pedagogy, which contributed to the fact that many sincerely believed in the General prosperity, and longed for his whole nation, has developed community standards of living, including, and in the education of children all together. Originality understanding of education of the Russian people expressed in the quest for the immortality of the kind. A strengthening of the large family was one of the manifestations of love for his native land, serve the motherland, its well-being. Deeply humane were the idea and practice of the teachings of «living for others», to consider the needs of others - without prejudice to himself. This helped the young aware of their place in the human community, the education of responsibility to others. The «didactic» works of ancient Russia reﬂ ected the people's experience of purposeful education of love for all living things, sobriety, endurance, and work to overcome the ills of life; the ability to not cause angry people to communicate, as well as the widespread use of prevention methods of the young men about the possible negative consequences of violations of the hostel rules. These ﬁ ndings were based on a comprehensive analysis of the works of ancient «Bee», «the Precept of Volodymyr Monomakh to the children», «children's Citizenship practices» Epiphany Slavinskogo, analysis of the activities of the academies - Mohyla in Kiev and the Slavic-Greek-Latin in Moscow.