This article was prepared for teachers working with children and teenagers. It presents views concerning psychology of education in order to contribute to a long and animated discussion about education and its development paths. The psychological reference in education is a rarity at present, which may be due to abundant and very broad European curricula, which in turn, results in teachers concentrating on instilling the knowledge, but forgetting about educating children. The paper discusses the aspects of shaping the entrepreneurial attitudes at school, but also on a number of other factors that can affect education of young people. Studying psychological aspects of teenagers’ education allows for specifying how this crucial issue should be handled. The presented conclusions should further enliven discussions on the entrepreneurship at school by introducing a point of view of psychologist who understands educating mechanism differently than a teacher. However, the problems presented in this article cannot be resolved only through a discussion. Certain actions by authorities are required in addition to a change in teachers’ mentality who when teaching entrepreneurship should enforce it by their own entrepreneurial attitude. A prime conclusion, which can be drawn after reading this article, explicitly determines entrepreneurship not as a field of knowledge, but personality trait, which knows how to use certain information.
The article attempts to explain the scientific and social phenomenon that was constituted by the figure of Wacław Nałkowski. With comprehensive knowledge concerning his life, the author undertook the characterization of his personality with the use of the special psychological method of transactional analysis. It is a method developed by American psychiatrist Eric Berne during 1960s. It explains the way people think and behave, offering many tools to understand human functioning, social, spiritual and intellectual development, and person’s inherent creative potential. The analysis proved to be helpful to define these characteristic sand attitudes of Nałkowski that are desirable in today’s teachers and researchers.
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