Stanisław Konarski

Stanisław Konarski (actually Hieronim Franciszek Konarski, born September 30, 1700 in Żarczyce at Jędrzejów; † August 3, 1773 in Warsaw) chose his name Stanisław upon entry to the Piaristen of St. Lawrence ( Lawrence ). He was a Polish writer, educator, journalist, school and educational reformer, founder in 1740 of the Collegium Nobilium and thought leader of the Polish Enlightenment.

Life

Konarski was of noble descent. His mother, Helena, from the family Czermiński was closely related to the powerful family of the Tarlo. His father Jerzy held the office of steward of Zawichost. Stanisław lost his parents early and came under the care of his uncle Antoni Czermiński. In 1709 he came to the Piaristen College in Piotrków. 1715 he joined the Piaristen Monastery and began a novitiate in Podolínec, like his brothers, Stanisław ( Antoni ) and Władysław ( Ignacy ). In Podolínec he specialized in humanistic sciences such as linguistics and rhetoric. That was an excellent opportunity for the perfection of eloquence, elocution, rhetoric, to sermons given occasion for the young Konarski. A Verszyklus in honor of the Mother of God - - During these years, his first work was created, highly stylized and creatively by Sarbiewski, a work of school imitation, as he later knows about it.

Thanks to the help of his uncle in January Tarlo he came to Italy. He graduated from the Collegium Nazarenum whose rector was at that time Paolino Chellucci. Konarski studied, inter alia, in France and Germany. In 1730 he made ​​at the instigation Załuski the editorial work for the publication of a draft of the Constitution and the law of the Sejm - the volumes legum.

After the death of King Augustus II, he campaigned for the election of Leszczynski King of Poland and gave out some political works. He went to Paris in search of support for Leszczynski. Travel to France gave him the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the latest thoughts on education and teaching. He learned works of the French Enlightenment know and was interested in the ideas of Locke and Rollins. In his four-volume treatise political " O skutecznym rad sposobie - About real advice for possible", he presented the failure of the system and gave an outline of the reform of society.

He mainly dealt with ethical considerations. He wrote " Mowe o kszałtowaniu człowieka ucziwego i prawego obywatela - talking about the creation of an honest man and honest citizen ." The ordinary man is one which does not violate the honor of not cheating, keeps his word, and estimates the law. The only guarantee of this education is the religion, " which brings the good and discourage the bad ," the sinful nature of man converts from that indicated original sin.

Another important determinant of human behavior must be the principle of justice - the principle of the Kantian imperative. Great importance has the obligation to ancestors, the mighty, friends, servants ( meticulous payment of services ). According Konarski should win the greatest number of friends, because social contacts based on virtue, not on convenience, educate to some extent. It is interesting how this time the view Konarski was that all men are equal.

True nobility he understood as the cultivation of virtue and criticized the passing of szlachta - pride, arrogance, querulousness and drunkenness. The first virtue in moral education, he demanded obedience.

For the school system demanded Konarski:

• Emphasis on practical knowledge
• The teaching of future goals
• The teaching of the language of the people
• The abandonment of further plans regarding Latin and rhetoric
• The rejection of mere erudition
• The offer craft and physical education
• A Christian attitude
• The intellectual development of the student.

He is also the author of " Ordynacji wizytacji apostolskich - order apostolic inspection ," in which part I contains the first demolition of professional ethics of the teacher, also in the question of subordination and inter alia of rhetoric and individual topics. 1771 he was appointed by King Stanisław August Poniatowski with the medal "Sapere Auso " or " the One who dared to be wise " excellent.

The mortal remains of Stanisław Konarski and other Piaristen were after the November Uprising of Russians from the church at the Długa ( Long Street) and at an unknown location in the vicinity of St. Borromeo Church in the Catholic part of the cemetery Powązki scattered.