Tradition as a component of the educational potential (on the example of Kremenets schools 1804–2019)

The genesis of elite education in Kremenets dates back to 1711. After the perturbations of 1783–1801 / 1803, the Jesuit base of the academic school of the Kingdom of Poland became the basis for the establishment of a school complex - the Kremenets Lyceum as the planned university. As a result of its achievements and the Tsar’s decree of 1819, the Lyceum obtained the formal status of a university, but in 1833 it was transferred to Kiev as the basis for the establishment of the Russian University of Saint Vladimir. The Orthodox theological seminary after 1834, and then the female secondary school, did not fill the gap left by the Lyceum. His myth was built by graduates. As a result, the school complex was recreated in Kremenets in 1919–1920 and was successful until 1939. However, the legend was fought in the USSR, including Kremenets itself, but still alive in Poland. The mental heirs of the educational tradition of Kremenets are contemporary Ukrainians and Poles. The new hosts of Kremenets gradually and selectively refer to the traditions of the first half of the 19th century. The Kremenets Lyceum was established in the same year as the oldest Ukrainian university in Kharkiv (1804). The small, provincial Kremenets has a chance to transform today’s Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy of Kremenets if it refers to the tradition of the years 1804–1939. The potential hidden in tradition was saved in the 19th century by the University of Krakow. An axiom is the view of Hannah Arendt that without tradition and authority education is impossible. The essence is an educational tradition, not a political or national one. However, contemporary studies of the views of Polish or Ukrainian students and academic teachers create a more complex picture, not fully consistent with the threats of 2022. The confrontation of the past and the educational tradition with the state of its contemporary reception is the essence of the presented text.