Tolstoys Influence on Notorious Leaders of the World Essay

Tolstoy’s Influence Leo Tolstoy was an author, anarchist, critic, pioneer, visionary, and a world changer. He wrote many great novels and various other literary works in his time, but that only scratches the surface of how and what he did to change the world. Leo Tolstoy changed the world by starting schools which allowed peasants to get an education, influencing leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., and changed the world through his writings. Leo Tolstoy was a Russian author who was born September 9, 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana, Russia and died of pneumonia in the winter of 1910. Today Tolstoy is buried at his Yasnaya Polyana estate in Russia. Both of his parents died when he was just a child, and he was raised by†¦show more content†¦Leo Tolstoy also started schools for peasant children. The peasants were like Tolstoy’s second family. Tolstoy realized how important a good education is and wanted to make it available to the peasants who, being the lower class, wouldn’t normally get any education. Tolstoy believed that education was a necessity, and that everyone should have a right to it. So when the local peasants were declined that right, he felt the need to fix it. He took it upon himself to make a good education available to anyone and everyone. He started his first school for underprivileged children at his home, Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoy wrote this in his article about popular education, â€Å"I could write whole books about the ignorance that I witnessed in the schools of France, Switzerland, and Germany; Anyone who cares about education should study schools not from the reports of public examinations, but from extended visits and conversations with teachers and pupils in the schools and outside the schools† (http://www.sras.org/). He started up other schools as well. He opened fourteen schools in all, but sadly none lasted. Eventually he was forced to close down all of his schools due to other â€Å"more important† obligations such as family and writing. Tolstoy started writing letters and notes to his family once he joined the military. This writing eventually turned into a hobby and then a career. Tolstoy wrote lots of literary works, most notable of which are, in no particular order, WarShow MoreRelated Dostoevsky as Performer Essay4297 Words   |  18 Pagesthat the Dostoevsky parents were fine readers and the two oldest boys [Mikhail and Fyodor] did not lag far behind them and is convinced that for Fyodor these reading sessions served as a literary foundation for his entire life (10). The influence of Fyodors mother, his first teacher, was no doubt strong as she conveyed her love of poetry and novels as well as music. Fyodor began to read for himself at the age of four from an antique volume containing a hundred and four Bible tales andRead MoreProject Mgmt296381 Words   |  1186 PagesProcess Analysis and Improvement, First Edition Simchi-Levi, Kaminsky, and Simchi-Levi, Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies, Case Studies, Third Edition Sterman, Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for Complex World, First Edition Stevenson, Operations Management, 10th Edition Swink, Melnyk, Cooper, and Hartley, Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain, First Edition Thomke, Managing Product and Service Development: Text and Cases, First Edition Ulrich and