Simon Lvovich Soloveichik (October 1, 1930, Simferopol — October 18, 1996) — Russian publicist, teacher and philosopher.
After graduating from Moscow State University in 1953, he worked as a Pioneer leader, a teacher in Moscow schools, and a correspondent for Pioneer magazine.
In the 1960s in the newspaper «Komsomolskaya Pravda» he founded the ueku «Scarlet Sail», where he published articles on issues of humanism and morality.
In the mid-1980s, while working for Uchitelskaya Gazeta, Soloveichik initiated a new scientific and practical pedagogical movement — the pedagogy of cooperation, in which education was seen not as an impact on the child, but as a dialogue between the teacher and the student. He also regularly published articles on pedagogy in the journal Novoye Vremya.
In 1992, Soloveichik founded and headed the newspaper «First of September», promoting humanistic pedagogical ideas on its pages.
In 1994, Simon Lvovich Soloveichik wrote the Manifesto a Free Man, which very briefly and clearly expresses the main ideas of raising a free person, gives definitions of inner freedom, conscience, what a free child is, a free school, and what is the path to educating free people.
The main work of the life of Simon Lvovich Soloveichik is the book Pedagogy For All (1977-1986), where he outlined philosophical views on the goals, means, and conditions for raising children; showed how the heart, mind and spirit of a free person are brought up and showed the shortcomings of traditional parenting.
Soloveichik is the author of books about children and for children: A Book About You (1963), Wet in the Rain (1968), Despair (1969), Teaching with Passion (1978).
A play was staged based on Soloveichik’s story «The Sad Monogamous», and an 8-episode TV movie was shot based on the story «The Band» Seven Winds «.