Pedagogy and schools of Maria Montesorri and Rudolph Steiner: History of futurology

The idea of freedom in education, child freedom, freedom of people in general is an up- to -date topic. A child in our school even though at the beginning of 21st century is not free yet. There are still many obstacles such as authoritarian teachers, requirement for utter obedience, strict discipline and various ways of punishment even the physical one. One of the most famous creators and advocates of the idea of free education is an Italian medical doctor and an educator from the end of the last century and the beginning of this one - Maria Montesorri. Her idea of free education consists of allowing for conditions and changes of environment so that the child can full concentrate in order to can out the tasks s/he feels happy with. Another concept similar to the previous one, but specific in its own way, has been developed by an Austrian pedagogue and theologian, Rudolph Steiner. Maria Montesorri is mainly known in our pedagogical circles only in the field of history of pedagogue, while Rudolph Steiner is almost unknown. Many schools in the world follow the models of Maria Montesorri or Rudolph in their work. Thus, only in Germany hundreds of schools, regardless of the fact whether catholic, protestant or elementary, work according to Maria Montesorri beliefs and a similar number of schools according to Steiner's. A great number of schools throughout Europe has accepted their methods of teaching. It is the case with a number of kindergardens in Europe as well as in the countries of former Yugoslavia. It is believed that in our society which tends towards obtaining freedom for all its members will pay full attention to these models.