UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., April 23 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - A multi-university collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is producing a new documentary film to bring attention to the life and legacy of Polish pediatrician, author, playwright, radio broadcaster and educator Janusz Korczak, whose ideas in the late 1800s-early 1900s about children's rights were considered revolutionary for their time.
Born Henryk Goldszmit in Warsaw in 1878, Korczak wrote under a pen name, arguing that children were not incomplete adults, but full human beings with their own inner lives, moral reasoning and rights. Through both his clinical wo...