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Simon L'vovich Soloveychik was a Russian publicist, educator and social philosopher.

✵ 1. October 1930 – 18. October 1996
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“A free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society. Internally he or she is independent. A society can become liberated externally - from oppression, but it can become free only when the majority of people are free internally.”

Simon Soloveychik

Who Is a Free Man. What Is Freedom? http://parentingforeveryone.com/freeman/
Chelovek Svobodny (Free Man) (1994)

“Integrity has a high psychological and philosophical value, for many people it is a highest value, it associate with health of soul. Dualism, contradiction, torments of hesitation - is something of illness, integrity is health, people strive for it instinctively.”

Simon Soloveychik

Source: The Last Book (1999), Ch.17 (In Russian, Последняя книга,1999, ISBN 5-8246-0030-9

“To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.”

Simon Soloveychik

Book 2 part 3, ch. 10
Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977–1986)

“A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.”

Simon Soloveychik

Book 1, part 2, ch. 20
Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977–1986)

“What is the internally free man free from? First of all - he or she is free from fear of people and life; from conventional opinion. He or she is independent from the crowd, from stereotypical thinking. He or she is able to have their own personal point of view; free from prejudices. He or she is free from envy, selfishness and from aggressive personal drives.”

Simon Soloveychik

Talent of Freedom. What Is Internal Freedom? http://parentingforeveryone.com/freedom/
Chelovek Svobodny (Free Man) (1994)

“A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.”

Simon Soloveychik

Book 1, part 1, ch. 5
Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977–1986)

“A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it’s impossible.”

Simon Soloveychik

Book 1 part 1, ch. 23
Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977–1986)

“Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.”

Simon Soloveychik

Source: The Last Book (1999), Ch.20 (In Russian, Последняя книга,1999, ISBN 5-8246-0030-9

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