Jedrzej Sniadecki's vision of physical education in the perspective of contemporary scientific knowledge

Abstract

In the article, selected theses from J. Sniadecki's 1805 work "On the physical education of children" are reconstructed from the perspective of modern scientific knowledge. Statements from 200 years ago turn out to be accurate and up-to-date: the postulate of the integrity of upbringing, the primary goal of which should be to build health, criticism of one-sided intellectual education of children, warning against the negative effects of immobilizing children in the classroom, the postulate of including in the educational process the means that our ancestors used. The result of the analysis is also a proposal for kinesthetic education for preschool and early school-age children, as well as interventions aimed at actualizing biological potential, which was defined as paleohominization