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| | libed.org.uk - Libertarian Education - Articles - Janusz Korczak - An Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Janusz Korczak was born as Henryk Goldszmit in 1878 in a rather well-to-do, assimilated Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland. |
 | | Korczak organised meetings on several subjects like swimming in the river and a mess in the toilet, and he concluded, "The children's assistance is absolutely essential to the teacher, the prerequisite being, however, constant, vigilant control and a duty roster" (p. |
 | | Korczak was determined to create a completely new educative environment for the children – or rather one should say, with the children, for later, looking back, he wrote: "The child became the patron, the worker and the head of the home" (Korczak, 1967: 385). |
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