František Kahuda

Who was František Kahuda?

Prof. RNDr. et PaedDr. František Kahuda was a Czechoslovak physicist and educator. Between 1954 and 1963 he worked as a Minister of Education, and from 1967 to 1985 he was one of the major promoters of psychotronics, within which he founded his own school, called psychoenergetics.

His scientific career began in 1952, when he successfully defended a dissertation thesis on photonics and thus obtained a doctorate in natural science. After a short period on the faculty of math and physics at the Charles University in Prague and at Chemical-technological University, he was a chairman of the Czechoslovak Unity of mathematicians and physicists.

He also studied new possibilities of pedagogy and aspects of learning in education and upbringing in general. During this work he achieved knowledge that he summed up in his work "Dynamics of sociological and pedagogical aspects in the education of youth." The nonverbal factors considerably participate in the procedure of education and upbringing, which he considered to be so crucial that he began to focus on them in his scientific research.