STAROŻYTNI NAUCZYCIELE SAMOREALIZACJI
ANCIENT TEACHERS OF SELF-REALIZATION

Summary/Abstract: The problem of lifelong, subjectively and socially desired self-realization, implementing it at school and in other forms of tuition, belongs to one of the most important educational problems of current world. Practitioners working on research conducted by C. Rogers and A. Maslow, are still looking for answer on such questions as: What a teacher have to know, to successfully inspire his or her pupils for lifelong self-realization? What should he/she teach? In what kind of atmosphere should he/she do this? This paper reminds what kind of opinions on this subject had ancient philosophers-teachers such as: Homer, Thales of Miletus, Confucius, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Democritus and Epicurus, as well as indicate that their thoughts and actions converge on opinions and actions of contemporary researchers, propagators and implementers of self-realization.

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