Franciszka Próchnickiego "instrukcja" programowa i metodyczna
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Franciszek Próchnicki belongs to the outstanding representatives of grammar school Polish
studies during the last quaretr of a century after the partition of the country. He was born
in 1847 at Brzeżany in Eastem-Galicia, after graduation from the Lvov University in 1873
he became a Secondary-School-teacher, at first at his home townand later at Lvov, where he
acted as headmaster of the Secondary School Nr. V froml891 till to 1905 when he went. Franciszek Próchnicki was also a member of the Higher-School-Teachers’Society, which held
over teachers from popular and Secondary Schools, founded lending libraries for young
people, determined on teaching schedules and attached the highest importance to programs for
the Polish language.
He was known as author of a number of instructions for Polish-language for Secondary
School of the former Galicia, especially the Guide for Polish Language Studies (1885) was
the base for all programs of this subject untill 1918.
As a didactician of literature Próchnicki set induction based on a wellfoundcd knowlage
of literary texts. It was very important opinion. He took sides against the generally adopted
acroamatic methods conected with Herbart’s views of education. This progressive yeacher
confirmed that learning by heart was a process leading to uncreative attitiude towards,
precluding individual things.
In the history of Polish language studies during the partion of poland Próchnicki renderd
a great service by making capital of any oportunity which might to Galicia in order to set
Polish science on the national track.
All his life Próchnicki devoted to teacher’s occupation.
He died at Lvov in 1911.