Mikhail Nyankovsky

He was practically forced to participate in the "Teacher of the Year" contest by the director of the Yaroslavl Provincial College. The contest did not attract Mikhail Nyankovsky, maybe because it is necessary to show yourself from the best side, and Mikhail Alexandrovich is the "wrong" teacher. To the traditional methodological question whether literature should educate, "Teacher of the Year of Russia - 1994" answers as follows: "Yes. But the problem is that most often the education of literature boils down to trying to teach the child to be kind and honest. But you can educate through laughter or catharsis, not through suggestion. I focus on literary criticism, because the ability to penetrate the harmony of the text allows me to awaken harmony in the student himself.