Sergey Nikilayevich Durilin
The centre of S. N. Durilin’s pedagogy is the child. He demanded that childhood shouldn’t be taken away from children, that adult’s will shouldn’t be imposed on pupils. Education should be organized with orientation to children’s natural demands, their interests and abilities. S. N. Durilin perceived freedom as the objective, condition and means of child rearing, providing his thorough moral, intellectual and physical development.