Talk:Hryhorii Skovoroda

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I want to add breadth and richness to this article’s description of Skovoroda’s life and teachings.
I wrote this “Teachings” Section:
One of Skovoroda's missions was teaching. Formally he taught poetics in the Pereyaslav Collegium (1750-1751) and poetics, syntax, Greek and catechism at Kharkiv Collegium (1759-1760, 1761-1764, 1768-1769).  (Chopyk and, Shubin, Daniel H., and Grigori Skovoroda. Skovoroda: The World Tried to Catch Me but Could Not. Lulu. com, 2012.)
In 1751 he had a dispute with the presiding bishop who considered Skovoroda's new ways of teaching as strange and incompatible with the former traditional course. Young Skovoroda, confident in his mastery of the subject matter and in the precision, clarity and comprehensiveness of his rules of prosody, refused to comply with the bishop's order, asking for arbitration and pointing out to him that "alia res sceptrum, alia plectrum" [the pastor's scepter is one thing, but the flute is another]. The bishop considered Skovoroda's stance as arrogant and consequently he was dismissed from the Pereyaslav Collegium. (Chopyk wording, he references Kovalinsky: Григорій Сковорода, Повне зібрання творів, (М.  Ковалинський, 'Жизнь Григория Сковородьі'), т.  2 В-во Наукова  Думка, Київ 1973)
The first year of teaching at Kharkiv Collegium passed brilliantly for Skovoroda. He not only excited his students with his lectures but his creative pedagogical approach also attracted the attention of his colleagues and even his superiors. (Chopyk, p 41) 
Skovoroda was also a private tutor for Vasily Tomara (during 1753-175, 1755-1758) and a mentor as well as a life long friend of Michael Kovalinksky (during 1761-1769), his biographer.
In his teaching Skovoroda aimed at discovering the student's inclinations and abilities and devised talks and readings which would develop them to the fullest. (Chopyk, 42) 
This approach has been described by Skovoroda's biographer Kovalinksy:
"Skovoroda began [teaching young] Vasily Tomara by working more on the heart of his young disciple and, watching for his natural inclinations, he tried to help only the nature itself in developing him by engaging, light, and tender direction which the boy could not even notice, for Skovoroda paid particular attention not to overtax the young mind with [heavy] learning. In this way the boy became attached to Skovoroda with love [and trust for] him.   (Chopyk 42, and Kovalinsky reference).
His teaching was not limited to academia nor to private friends and during his later years as "holy wanderer" he taught publicly the many who were drawn to him. 
Gavriil brilliantly describes Skovoroda's Socratic qualities.
"Both Socrates and Skovoroda felt from above the calling to be tutors of the people, and, accepting the calling, they became public teachers in the personal and elevated meaning of that word. ... Skovoroda, also like Socrates, not being limited by time or place, taught on the crossroads, at markets, by a cemetery, under church porticoes, during holidays, when his sharp word would articulate an intoxicated will - and in the hard days of the harvest, when a rainless sweat poured upon the earth."
Skovoroda taught that one finds his true calling by self examination. “Know yourself,” advised Skovoroda using the well known maxim of the Greek philosopher Socrates. He introduced a well founded idea that a person engaged in an in-born, natural work is provided with a truly satisfying and happy life. (Chopyk, p 57). 
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Shubin pg 18, Nikolai Kostomarov quote.  (This could be used in an impact-influence section)
"In some towns and cities fathers and grandfathers have related the places where he visited ... the good attitude that Skovoroda showed those contemporaries he visited now comprised the family pride of their grandchildren."
Danilevsky 1862 (from Shubin too).    (This could be used in an impact-influence section)   
The extent of Skovoroda's social significance is demonstrated by the financial support of landlords who donated 618 thousand rubles in silver to found the Kharkiv University (completed in 1803), and they were for the most part either students of Skovoroda, or his friends or else brief associates that knew him during his travels.  (paraphrased)
Let me know if you have edits, suggestions, additions. Happy holidays,
Svyatver (talk) 14:39, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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