Abstract
This chapter describes the origin of Soviet educational philosophy. It has been suggested that the roots of Soviet educational philosophy may well be found in the era of Peter the Great. Peter I, otherwise known as Peter the Great, was the first Russian monarch to accept the immense value of scientific education on his return to Russia after having visited England. Peter's reforms, which marked the modernization and westernization of Russia during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, were scientific and military in essence. In his efforts to promote knowledge and education, which was modeled on the Baltic German provinces, Peter stressed scientific, military, and technical skills of use to the State. The idea that the main task of education should be the formation of a humane, free individual who would live in the interests of his society and who would aspire to change his society was the fundamental thesis of Alexander Hertsen, the contemporary of Belinsky.
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