Abstract

This article shows the author’s development path. In the first part of the text: Significant inspirations. From early childhood to doctoral thesis, the author discusses the impact of the most significant people from his family background and intellectuals on the current level of his general theoretical knowledge and practice in aesthetic education, including the multiple experiences of working in agricultural schools as well as the ministerial pedagogical supervision. In the second part: Pedagogy of culture as an inspiration for educational theories and practice, the author shows the stages from 1995 to the revived pedagogy of culture, signalling its multiple effects, also in the field of aesthetic education.