‘There are no children, there are people’, ‘a child’s right to respect’, ‘a child’s right to preserve their identity’ – these slogans aptly sum up Janusz Korczak’s educational credo. But what do they ...

In 2012, Poland celebrated the life and work of Henryk Goldszmit – better known by his pseudonym of Janusz Korczak. Remembered today primarily for his contributions to education as a significant ...

Expounding on the upbringing of children, and their rights, the peculiarities of their minds and development, is how many remembered the Old Doctor – the renowned writer, educator and physician Janusz ...

Here’s the very best of Janusz Korczak’s unorthodox wisdom on children (and adults) – encapsulated in his own words. Children are not future human beings, they are already human beings. It is humanity ...

King Matt the First (Król Maciuś Pierwszy) was no ordinary children’s character. Janusz Korczak, a Polish paediatrician, promoted and popularised the rights of children, treating them as equals. In ...

1. Date of birth: 1878 or 1879? Janusz Korczak as a child, ca. 1888, book frontispiece from King Matt the First, the Nasz Dom/Our House building, Pola Bielańskie, photo courtesy of the Korczakianum ...

Its story begins with a man named Henryk Goldszmit, known to the world under his nom de plume, Janusz Korczak. Korczak achieved relative fame during his lifetime for his work as a children’s author ...

Renowned playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, a Wayzata resident, praised the cast and crew who performed an adaptation of his original play, “Korczak’s Children,” on Feb. 26 at Chanhassen High ...