Abdulla Avloniy. The homeland and “Ikkinchi muallim”

Abdulla Avloniy was born on 12 July 1878 in Tashkent into a weaver craftsman’s family. He studied at a neighbourhood school and madrasas, studying in winter and working as a labourer in summer. In 1907 he published the newspaper “Shuhrat”. In 1909 he founded the charity society “Jamiyati xayriya”, and in 1913 the society and theatre “Turon”. He taught in a new-method school himself and wrote textbooks for it, such as “Birinchi muallim” (1909), “Ikkinchi muallim” (1912), “Turkiy guliston yoxud axloq” (1913) and “Maktab gulistoni” (1916). Avloniy believed that upbringing is a matter of life and death. He died on 25 August 1934.