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POSITIVE EDUCATION — THE AXIOM OF CONTEMPORARY UPBRINGING AND EDUCATION
secondary schools, 8796 of students feel a relationship with a related person in
their life.
Willingness to help
Help is an activity in which egoism, hostility should be eliminated, while be¬
longing, prosocial behaviour, empathy, congruence, authenticity should be
included. Help in mutual relations reaches a higher level when it is imple¬
mented without expected recompense, returned help. In the survey, over 9096
of high-school students said that high-school teachers apply elements of trust,
empathy, and gratitude in their teaching practice. Koni¢kova (2019) foreshad¬
owed some of the applications and draws attention to their importance by
changing the pupils’ approach to life.
According to the results of the survey, almost 85% of high-school students under¬
stand the meaning of their education when teachers apply elements of positive
psychology in the given area. They have developed metacognitive qualities: self¬
reflection, self-knowledge, and self-evaluation with critical thinking. They feel the
meaning in the objective evaluation of knowledge by teachers and in the curiosity
arising from real, illustrative practice, which positively helps them to use in-depth
learning, which develops both the cognitive and conative domains of the student’s
personality. Much more respondents from rural areas experience significant inter¬
personal relationships, but the importance of helping classmates, a certain sense of
belonging, and prosocial behaviour prevail at a high level in both schools. They are
looking at themselves, how they learn, what they do, how they live in society, and
what kind of relationships they have with other people and what communication
gives them meaning.
A — Pupils’ success
Satisfaction with own life
We can say that success can be formulated into a satisfying life, within which
the knowledge, qualities, skills, attitudes and opinions of an individual are
accumulated. Based on their ideas, aspirations and experiences, students learn
to create their life goals, when they experience a full-fledged peaceful life. The
feeling of satisfaction from various achievements fills them vitally. According
to Seligman (2014), successful performance consists of mastery, recognition,
and winning just for the sake of achieving an objective, which is usually suc¬
cessful in itself. Addressed respondents know how to identify their success,
which is manifested in their satisfaction with life, they know how to feel hap¬
piness and satisfaction when their small and large objectives are met with
success and life flows according to their expectations. Up to two-thirds of the
respondents confirmed their resourcefulness, independence, breakthrough,
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