Aspects of personality’s value education in the life story of Jānis Mencis, Sr.

Abstract

In a democratic society humane personality is the highest value. That is as well the overall aim of upbringing. At different ages diverse priorities put themselves out. What are the contemporary priorities in value education and how to realise them? In order to find motive for the task of upbringing in school, we shall analyse the experience of previous generations. The aim of the article: to find out the cognitions in value education by the distinguished teacher Janis Mencis (1914-2011) that could prove useful to contemporary teachers in teaching to children love towards their motherland, its history and culture. As it is well known, the best means for upbringing is authority, inspiring model whom to resemble and love. Likewise contemporary teachers have the necessity to become educators whom children and teenagers would like to imitate. Personality of Janis Mencis (Sr.) is the paragon of several generations of whose experience we can learn.