Aleksi Tchitchinadze’s practical, theoretical-didactic ideas and modernity

Abstract

Aleksi Tchitchinadze successfully conducted teaching and educational activities at Tbilisi and Kutaisi nobility schools, Khoni seminary; directed schools in Erevan and Thergi. He was an excellent educator, who, apart from practikal activities, carried out fruitful methodological and public-educational work.  Al. Tchitchinadze contributed to the newspaper “Droeba” and was one of the founders of Kutaisi library and theatrical group. He worked gratis at Khoni single-sex high schools and had charge of a great deal of public and charitable activities.“To be said at dawn” by Al. Tchitchinadzeis an important pedagogic and didactic piece of writing, then representing a brave word against the tsarist education system and a call for reforming the national schools in accordance with the requirements of the epoch.