He insists on the principle of education in the collective. One of the principles of moral education is to pay attention to cultivating students' collective, rely on the collective and give full play to the role of students' collective in education. Makarenko, a Soviet educator, called this influence "parallel educational function". Based on the dialectical unity of collective and individual and the special role of collective in the formation of students' ideological and moral character. Collectivity is an important and powerful means to cultivate people and their spiritual development.
Only in the collective can individuals acquire the means to develop their talents in an all-round way. The noble virtues of students' collectivism, solidarity and mutual assistance can only be formed and consolidated through collective activities. The implementation of this principle requires:
(1) Cultivate and promote the formation and development of a good student group and make it an educational force;
(2) Give full play to the educational role of the students' collective;
(3) handle the relationship between individuals and collectives. Be good at combining collective education with individual education, so that the collective and the individual can promote each other in their development.
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko was born in a railway worker's family. From 1928 to 1935, he organized and led the "dzerzhinsky Children's Labor Commune" with the same nature, and put forward the principles and methods of educating children through collective productive labor and education. Through active exploration, bold attempts and hard work, thousands of juvenile offenders have been educated and transformed into talents for socialist construction.
Due to health reasons, makarenko left the front line of education in July 1935 and became the deputy director of the Administrative Bureau of the People's Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. 1939 won the labor red flag medal.