Alexander Fedotovich, the period of the 90s, when the school lived in accordance with the thesis “we only give knowledge, the family brings up”, is a thing of the past. Today, the educational moment becomes a priority in the work of any educational institution. This was announced at the highest state level. President Dmitry Medvedev proposed for implementation the "Concept of Spiritual and Moral Education of Schoolchildren". In April next year, an experimental course aimed at the spiritual and moral education of schoolchildren will appear in Russian schools. Are you ready for this as one of the largest educational publishers in the country? Are there already some textbooks or their projects for this course?

We are ready to publish any textbook that will serve the good, meet state standards, and the pen of its author will belong to a talented professional. The publishing house has accumulated some experience. An example of this is the book "Native Land" for elementary school, the course of world artistic culture, the elective course "Geography. Flipping through the pages of a family album”, “Orthodox Dictionary”, a series of books for family reading about the traditions and customs of the Russian peoples, their heroism and love for the Motherland. If we talk directly about the textbooks for the course "Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics", then as soon as the standard is approved, we are ready to start working on them. We have ideas, a circle of authors has been outlined ... I would like to emphasize that it is wonderful that spiritual and moral culture is coming to school. We have been waiting for it, because it involves the formation of a personality on a solid foundation of centuries-old domestic traditions, where spirituality almost occupies the first place. One of the problems is who will teach the new course? Appropriate adjustments should be made to the system of advanced training for teachers, to the structure of higher pedagogical education, to the content of education in history departments, because it is historians who are most likely to lead this course. In addition, we must not forget that Russia is a multinational and multi-confessional country. I would even refuse the word "Russians", returning to the definition that has long been accepted in Russia - "Russian people". When developing a curriculum, the multi-ethnicity of the country must be taken into account, constantly remembering that we are obliged to form in students respect for representatives of other nations and faiths, to educate the consciousness that we are a single family with a common historical destiny.

This course is designed to bring people together, not divide. Here is one of the main ideas of spiritual and moral education - to teach kindness, mercy, love. Special subtlety, delicacy and spiritual wisdom will be required from teachers. And, of course, this subject should be interesting for children. Its task is to instill in the child a taste for culture, an interest in knowing the history of the human spirit. You can’t be late with the start of work, but you should also tune in to long-term systematic work, and the results will come - people will become kinder, more responsive, and most importantly, more spiritual, with a rich inner world filled with bright thoughts and goals.

The future of the country largely depends on the teacher. Its social role is truly great. All achievements lead from the threshold of the school. Every great thinker, scientist, commander, representative of the creative intelligentsia, highly professional worker had and remained with him his teacher all his life. In all the achievements that the country has, the teacher has made his contribution, and his contribution is weighty.

I already once said in an interview and I will say it again: who, in your opinion, won the Great Patriotic War? Soviet teacher, his students, for whom the defense of the Fatherland has always been an honorable duty. This is clearly seen in any village, town, city, where there are obelisks with the names of his students written in gold, who gave their lives for the Fatherland.

I am sure that today's youth, if necessary, will defend their Motherland. But it is better to let this cup pass them by. But don't we have heroes of Russia now - young guys who have shown courage in hot spots? Our children should know their names. Why not create a pantheon of the country's national heroes and revere them as shrines? We also forgot about the man of labor, but he is the salt of the earth - a simple worker who goes to work every day, sows bread or stands at the machine, lives for the sake of his children. He should be given credit in the media as well.

Alexander Fedotovich, I think that the objectives of the course "Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics" are not only an excursion into world religions, into the cultural traditions of different peoples, but also an attempt to give a small person a moral foundation, that support that would help him in life.

The child should have a moral core that would protect a person from breakdowns under any life circumstances. The formation of the child's inner spiritual world is one of the most difficult educational tasks. Both the family and the school should be involved in its decision. The right spiritual and moral choice is not an easy problem for every person. Children need to be taught how to do it. After all, a boy or girl often finds herself in a situation of a knight at a crossroads.

They must learn to understand not only themselves, but also other people, to live with them in harmony with human relations. The great classic, connoisseur of the human soul, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, wrote: "The most difficult thing is to live among people and remain human." This is, in fact, a kind of verdict on human society. One should strive for love and respect for one's neighbor, for a person. Seraphim of Sarov greeted everyone with the bright words "my joy." And we should not become a burden to each other, but a joy.

And yet, I think, the basics of human morality, the relationship between people, is primarily taught by the family.

Undoubtedly. The family is primarily responsible for the upbringing of children. Morality is most often taught by example. And the main and favorite examples for children have always been and will remain father and mother, grandparents. A child learns a kind, pure, bright relationship between a man and a woman by looking at his parents. At the same time, everything matters - how the father and mother talk, their gestures, facial expressions, intonations. A child should have a special habitat where he is selflessly loved. He must feel, touch the love of his relatives and friends, always count on their support, help, understanding. This instills self-confidence, helps to gain stability and integrity of the inner world with peace of mind. A child learns a lot in a family, and it is good if he absorbs the purity of relationships, thoughts, good deeds, loyalty and much more, which forms nobility - a quality that is unfortunately rarely spoken about today.

Agree, it is very difficult for both the family and the school to deal with the pernicious influence of some media, TV shows, where there is a lot of negativity, violence and evil, and outright vulgarity...

Yes, unfortunately, the world around the child, to put it mildly, is anti-pedagogical. A number of TV shows have already become the talk of the town. How to fight? Introduce censorship? Yes, but special censorship, which would pass through the heart and soul of the authors of such programs, if, of course, they have a soul and a heart. Let them ask themselves if they want their children to be brought up on these programs, and if they remember what the Bible says: “And whoever brings temptation, it’s better for him not to be born...” newspapers and magazines are immoral and dangerous to the spiritual health of our children. There are bright TV programs filled with the goodness of human creativity. We will focus on them.

To instill feelings of love for the Motherland and patriotism is part of the spiritual and moral education ... Where do you think the Motherland begins? How will you answer this question, Alexander Fedotovich?

Homeland begins with each of us, we are part of it. And what we are, our actions, our deeds, is our Motherland. Patriotism, on the other hand, is a sense of responsibility, first for oneself, then for the family, for comrades, for the city, and ultimately for one's country. Everyone has their own responsibility. And everyone, regardless of profession, position, place of work, deserves respect. After all, patriotism is also respect for fellow citizens, for the common history, for the fate of the country. People should not be indifferent to each other.

Let's get back to educational book publishing. I know that in addition to textbooks, you publish various educational series: "Library of Travels", libraries of domestic and foreign classics, "Crossroads of History", which undoubtedly carry a powerful educational charge...

Yes, these books are worth many hours of educational conversations. For example, the “Library of Travels” is, in fact, a chronicle of the heroism and selflessness of a person in the name of science, in the name of the Fatherland. Our compatriots Khabarov, Yermak, Przhevalsky and others made a huge contribution to the great geographical discoveries. They accomplished great feats for the sake of knowing the planet Earth. Read Scott's letters to his wife when death stood at the threshold of his tent. How much love they have... For me, reading means talking with a wise person, comprehending eternity... And the spiritual culture that we are talking about today goes hand in hand with the culture of reading and speech. This should also be remembered when addressing children.

The course of world events has come to a point when the existing world order has practically outlived itself, it is shaking and in a fever. The crisis speaks of this with all its obviousness. It is becoming more and more clear that the old public building can no longer be restored, that there is only one way left - to move forward, creating new forms of life, new forms of social relations. It will be a relationship free from those vestiges that today limit us at every step. They will be adequate to modern conditions, modern human consciousness.

Everything starts with a person and ends with a person. No improvements in the management structure, economy, technology ... will help if we ourselves remain the same, with the worldview and the ideas that have led us to today's impasse. But by what criterion can one distinguish the old, obsolete social phenomena from those progressive and emerging ones that are so needed now? Most likely, it is a moral core, a moral feeling.

The very concept of morality requires, in this regard, a more precise definition. It is often confused with morality, which is a set of purely external rules, while morality is a deeply internal (innate) property of a person. Morality acts as long as a person is conditioned by society with its rigid set of prescriptions. Therefore, the presence or absence of a moral core becomes noticeable in emergency (abnormal) situations. Today, thanks to the crisis, our whole life begins to look like one incessant emergency situation. The most ordinary and ordinary life problems can lead to much more serious consequences than before. For example, if earlier dismissal was fraught only with a less prestigious job or a lower salary, today it can turn into the collapse of all life plans and even put the family on the brink of survival.

It is precisely such seemingly purely worldly things that manifest in a person his moral core, showing what and for what he is ready to give up. Today, more and more people are faced with a choice - either close their eyes (compromise) with their own ideas about decency, honor, justice ... or lose their livelihood. No matter how prosaic it may look, but such simple life situations are a litmus test that shows what leads us through life.

A moral sense is a pass to the future, that silver thread that will guide a person through all the upcoming collisions. This is the core that will not let you break from seeming hopelessness or lose direction from sudden good luck. The best human qualities come from this feeling.

The course of world events has come to a point when the existing world order has practically outlived itself, it is shaking and in a fever. The crisis speaks of this with all its obviousness. It is becoming more and more clear that the old public building can no longer be restored, that there is only one way left - to move forward, creating new forms of life, new forms of social relations. It will be a relationship free from those vestiges that today limit us at every step. They will be adequate to modern conditions, modern human consciousness.
Everything starts with a person and ends with a person. No improvements in the management structure, economy, technology ... will help if we ourselves remain the same, with the worldview and the ideas that have led us to today's impasse. But by what criterion can one distinguish the old, obsolete social phenomena from those progressive and emerging ones that are so needed now? Most likely, it is a moral core, a moral feeling.
The very concept of morality requires, in this regard, a more precise definition. It is often confused with morality, which is a set of purely external rules, while morality is a deeply internal (innate) property of a person. Morality acts as long as a person is conditioned by society with its rigid set of prescriptions. Therefore, the presence or absence of a moral core becomes noticeable in emergency (contingency) situations. Today, thanks to the crisis, our whole life begins to look like one incessant emergency situation. The most ordinary and ordinary life problems can lead to much more serious consequences than before. For example, if earlier dismissal was fraught only with a less prestigious job or a lower salary, today it can turn into a collapse of all life plans and even put the family on the brink of survival.
It is precisely such seemingly purely worldly things that manifest in a person his moral core, showing what and for what he is ready to give up. Today, more and more people are faced with a choice - either close their eyes (compromise) with their own ideas about decency, honor, justice ... or lose their livelihood. No matter how prosaic it may look, but such simple life situations are a litmus test that shows what leads us through life.
A moral sense is a pass to the future, that silver thread that will guide a person through all the upcoming collisions. This is the core that will not let you break from seeming hopelessness or lose direction from sudden luck. The best human qualities come from this feeling.

Always do the right thing. It will give you pleasure
some people and surprise everyone else.
Mark Twain

What is this article about? By and large, how to live calmly, happily and in harmony with yourself. And it's expensive. This is not available to many. And, in fact, money can't buy it.

Don't believe? Look at the life of the rich who did not get their wealth in an honest way. They are not at all happy. Rather agitated and restless, always in suspense, sometimes lost. No matter how much they want to show others that this is not so. Although, if you want to live such a life, then do not read the article further.

So what is honor?

Honor is a set of qualities of a person, due to which he gains self-respect. It includes such qualities as nobility, justice, valor, courage, honesty and strict moral principles. This word comes from the Slavic word čütti and literally means "reverence, honor, respect." We can say that honor is the veneration of oneself.

Honor is a set of qualities of a person, due to which he gains self-respect.

Winnie the Pooh loved himself very much. And it was for what! He:

1. Never took all their honey from bees. Only half.
2. He always shared with homeless cubs - he gave away a third of the honey he got. Very generous.
3. Not all honey is alone, but invited Owl or Heel to him. He was insanely hospitable.

And oh, how he respected himself! He was very proud of himself! He had his own Winnie the Pooh HONOR.

In the past, honor was associated not so much with the inner qualities of a person as with his ability to behave in society, to comply with established norms and rules of behavior. This was required to maintain reputation and respect for others.

Honor is closely related to the concept of honesty. After all First of all, a person should not deceive himself.

Honor sets limits on what people can afford to do without feeling guilty or remorseful.

Our honor is to follow the best and
to improve the worst, if it can still become more perfect.
Plato

What is decency

Decency and honesty are too expensive gifts.
And do not expect them from cheap people.
Woody Allen

There is also such a thing as decency.

Decency is honesty, inability to low, immoral, antisocial acts.

Decency is when a person is honest and does not intentionally harm others.

If a person is truthful and simply makes sure not to harm other people, he can be considered decent. If he does something, but these actions do not intentionally cause unpleasant consequences for others, then such actions cannot characterize a person as dishonorable.

In ancient Greece, the word decency was given the following definition - it is “the sincerity of character, combined with the right way of thinking; honesty of character.

Integrity is spiritual cleanliness.

Decency is when, contrary to one’s own interests, a person will act according to his conscience, “as it should be.”

One of the richest people in the world, Warren Buffett, said: “When I hire people, I pay attention to three qualities. The first is decency, the second is intelligence and the third is high energy. But in the absence of the first, the other two will kill you!”

Winnie was a very decent bear. And he simply could not touch Piglet's honey pot until he allowed him to. And that is why he played the console with Pyatochok until the very night, because at the end a real PRIZE was waiting for him! Ha, but Pyatochek doesn’t even suspect!

By the way, there is such a thing as sincerity. Sincerity is the absence of contradictions between what a person says and what he really wants or feels. Sincerity is the ability to refuse deceit and speak as it is. Sincerely means "truthfully" and "frankly".

What is respect

Respect is the recognition that another person has merit and merit. Thanks to this feeling, communication between people becomes comfortable. We find in others something good, worthy, if not admiration, then recognition.

You can love just like that. But you can only respect for something.

Relationships in any team are built on this feeling: at work, in the family, in the company.

Respect is the recognition that another person has merit and merit.

Piglet had great respect for Owl. She always gave wise advice: where to find an oak tree with acorns, where are the dirtiest puddles, how to get smeared better, with a crust. Yes, Owl knew a lot about it! Respect.

And Eeyore Piglet just loved the donkey. There was nothing to respect for: he was painfully stupid, he couldn’t even buy a carrot in the store.

In order to express respect to a person, it is enough to treat him without disdain, to listen, not to hurt his feelings, not to mock, to speak politely with him, not to offend his honor, etc.

Before you have entered into a dialogue with a person, you can already show or not show respect for him. For example, if a woman is standing in front of you and you are standing with your hands in your pockets, you are disrespecting her. It turns out that respect as a respectful attitude is partly related to etiquette.

Sometimes respect lies in tolerance, indulgence. For example, if your interlocutor expresses a point of view different from yours. Treat him with respect, because these are his views on life, and they have the right to exist.

It is worth noting that respect does not have to be associated with sympathy. You can even respect your enemy - for some quality or an act committed by him.

Nobody can be happy
if he does not command his own respect.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Self-respect is the first step to being respected by others.
Jonathan Trigell.

What is a person's character?

The character of a person is understood as all the features of a person, that is, all his various qualities and personality traits that leave an imprint on all his actions and manifestations. In other words, character is a set of properties that determine a person's behavior in society. And these properties themselves are called character traits.

character is a set of properties that determine a person's behavior in society.

The nature of the Rabbit was calm: he very calmly watched as Piglet had been trying to pull Winnie out of his hole for half an hour. And how, with each attempt, a beautifully finished rabbit hole (made to the latest standards of the Forest) turned into ruins. And Winnie still didn't get through...

But the character of Piglet was eccentric: he rushed around Winnie and kept saying something and saying something.

Character traits are individual qualities of a person that affect her behavior. For example: confidence and goodwill, or caring and understanding.

The word "character" comes from the ancient Greek word "χαρακτηρ", which means: "sign, distinguishing feature, sign."

What are the "yes" and "no" of a person, such is his character.
A quick "yes" or "no" distinguishes a lively, firm, decisive character,
slow is prudent and timid.
I. Lavater

Character is like a tree, and reputation is its shadow.
We care about the shadow, but what we really need to think about is the tree.
A. Lincoln

What is human dignity

In society, it is customary, seeing a well-dressed person, to say that he looks worthy. But, is dignity manifested only externally? Shouldn't it touch the heart of a person and influence his actions? Let's see what human dignity is.

The dignity of a person is his respect for himself, a sense of the significance of himself as a person, the ability to get out of any situation without stepping over his principles.

The dignity of a man is his respect for himself.

The owl has always been proud of itself, respected. And it was for what. In mouse-catching competitions, she was always the first. True, once, quite by accident and by mistake, she grabbed Winnie, tearing out a large tuft of wool from his back, well, it doesn’t happen to anyone.

But Owl realized that she was mistaken. She immediately apologized. She smeared her entire back with green paint and flew away. Satisfying as hell. And on the way she caught 5 more mice - she had to play poker with someone. And mice, as everyone knows, are excellent players.

Be that as it may, the Owl understood: She did a great job! And Winnie cured, and managed to make a party for mice, and played poker herself.

This is the ability to interact with the world without sacrificing one's principles, without making concessions to base desires and bad deeds.

Self-esteem is a person's awareness of his own significance and value, and the observance of certain rules of behavior based on self-esteem.

It is inherent in everyone from birth. The dignity of a person allows him to realize the importance of not only himself, but also those around him. A person has to shape it, educate and train it in itself.

People who have this quality are respectful of others. Dignity gives a person a sense of confidence in himself and in his abilities. The higher we value ourselves, the more potential opportunities open before us.

Probably, everyone in his life got into such situations when you experience a feeling of lack of self-respect and your own worthlessness. It happens that people do not feel worthy, they believe that there is nothing to respect them for. This usually happens when a person commits a particular act, for which he subsequently feels remorse. In such cases, it is said that honor and dignity are lost.

As a rule, after some time a person makes amends, improves his reputation and again deserves respect. He ceases to consider himself a failure and insignificance, removes this definition from himself. At the same time, honor and dignity return to the person again.

To live means not only to satisfy the material needs of the body,
but above all to be conscious of one's human dignity.
Jules Verne

Not strong the best, but honest.
Honor and dignity are the strongest.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Human integrity

The meaning of the word "integrity", according to the explanatory dictionary: one that is whole, monolithic, indestructible, strong, united.

We can talk about the integrity of the individual, implying the harmonious unity of her bodily, mental, spiritual and moral life. If a person teaches a healthy lifestyle and high moral values ​​during the day, and at night and until the morning he “buzzes” in a nightclub, taking pictures of girls of easy virtue, then it is difficult to talk about the integrity of such a person.

The integrity of a person is the harmonious unity of her bodily, mental, spiritual and moral life.

Winnie looked at the tree and thought: if I don’t climb it and take honey from the beehive, then I’m not a real bear. A real bear should not miss a single hive!

But there are bees, and they bite. And the Owl considers this tree to be her own and will be extremely unhappy.

So Winnie sat in front of the tree for the third day and thought, thought, thought. He just cracked! He was pulled in all directions.

Vinnie is sick of it. He came to terms with himself: he's a bear! He must devastate all the hives in his path! And they always agree with the Owl.

Vinnie didn't hesitate anymore. He acted. And today he will have honey!

A holistic personality can be compared to a ready-made borscht - take it and eat it, unlike meat, cabbage, potatoes and beets. The integrity of a person presupposes the conformity of the content of a person's inner life and his external activity.

Speaking about the internal integrity of the personality, we mean the ability of a person in critical situations to maintain his life strategy, to remain committed to his life positions and value orientations.

Personal integrity is spoken of when a person has the courage to look at things realistically, draw his own conclusions and, if necessary, speak about it, including resisting external pressure. This is a person who has a stable worldview and value system. This is a person who is not tormented by contradictions, who has peace and confidence inside.

It's not scary when the world collapses around you -
scary when it collapses inside you
Vlad Deckert

All guilt is a state of being lost in the past;
all anxiety is a state of being lost in the future.
Ken Wilber

Incomplete personality

An incomplete person or a person who has lost his integrity is a person who has internal contradictions with himself.

If a person does not have goals, constantly contradicts both everyone and himself, does not know how to make decisions, or shifts them to others so as not to be responsible for them, then such a person can hardly be called integral.

Incomplete personality - one who has internal contradictions with himself

Piglet sat on a chair and tore his hair. How did he let this happen?

Yesterday. I drank fermented honey. And then he pulled out the feathers from the Owl, then threw the poor donkey Eeyore on a tree, having previously painted it with red paint. And Vinnie. And poor Winnie Piglet was simply set on fire by dousing with gasoline. Oh, well, he drank yesterday.

But now. He's a good, correct pig. As a child, he was just an angel. But what about what he did yesterday?! Owl. Winnie. Eeyore…

How can he live now, after everything he has done? Oh woe woe...

For these people, there is no guideline in life; their companions are self-doubt and low self-esteem. The consequences of all this are a constant change of personal beliefs and disappointment in everything. Not all, being in critical conditions, retain their qualities of an integral personality and remain unchanged in relation to their life positions.

How to feel like a worthy person

If for some reason you do not feel like a worthy person, this situation can be corrected.

First of all, you need to stop all attempts to humiliate yourself by others. You deserve good treatment.

It is necessary to constantly improve yourself, replenishing your knowledge and skills with your baggage. Learn to do your job better or make a better product (the product is the result of some work).

The more valuable you are to others, the higher your self-respect and dignity will be.

In order to feel worthy, one must responsibly approach the fulfillment of one's duty. This concerns specific obligations and assignments undertaken. But this also includes the fulfillment of family obligations, a responsible attitude to work tasks, the ability to keep promises and understand the significance of one's words and deeds.

How not to lose dignity and honor?

Having done something that is against one's honor, having lost one's dignity, a person loses not only faith in himself. He deprives himself of a sense of confidence, self-respect and plunges into the abyss of despair and self-abasement.

We'll fix it. But if you, having committed an offense for which you are ashamed, and do not correct it, you continue to fall lower, degrading to a state that is most often described as dishonorable, fallen. At least you will feel worse and worse.

Usually, the one who lost himself often did not want such an outcome. In order to recover in his own eyes and the eyes of those around him, he will need to figure out how to fix what he has done: he needs to develop a plan for how the damage will be corrected and compensated. No matter how difficult it may seem.

Beware of people who achieve their goals through manipulation. They don't care about you or your welfare. They have vested interests towards you. And by the way, this is the type of people who will tell you, insist that they are your friends. Don't get fooled by this. Happiness

The course of world events has come to a point when the existing world order has practically outlived itself, it is shaking and in a fever.

The crisis speaks of this with all its obviousness.

It is becoming more and more clear that the old public building can no longer be restored, that there is only one way left - to move forward, creating new forms of life, new forms of social relations.

It will be a relationship free from those vestiges that today limit us at every step. They will be adequate to modern conditions, modern human consciousness.

Everything starts with a person and ends with a person. No improvements in the management structure, economy, technology ... will help if we ourselves remain the same, with the worldview and the ideas that have led us to today's impasse.

But by what criterion can one distinguish the old, obsolete social phenomena from those progressive and emerging ones that are so needed now?

Most likely, this is a moral core, a moral feeling.

The very concept of morality requires, in this regard, a more precise definition. It is often confused with morality, which is a set of purely external rules, while morality is a deeply internal (innate) property of a person. Morality acts as long as a person is conditioned by society with its rigid set of prescriptions. Therefore, the presence or absence of a moral core becomes noticeable in emergency (contingency) situations.

Today, thanks to the crisis, our whole life begins to look like one incessant emergency situation. The most ordinary and ordinary life problems can lead to much more serious consequences than before.

For example, if earlier dismissal was fraught only with a less prestigious job or a lower salary, today it can turn into a collapse of all life plans and even put the family on the brink of survival.

It is precisely such seemingly purely worldly things that manifest in a person his moral core, showing what and for what he is ready to give up.

Today, more and more people are faced with a choice - either close their eyes (compromise) with their own ideas about decency, honor, justice ... or lose their livelihood. No matter how prosaic it may look, but such simple life situations are a litmus test that shows what leads us through life.

A moral feeling is a pass to the future, that silver thread that will guide a person through all the upcoming collisions. This is the core that will not let you break from seeming hopelessness or lose direction from sudden luck. The best human qualities come from this feeling.