Gegenwartsfragen des ungarischen Bildungswesens
Contemporary Issues of the Hungarian Education System

Summary/Abstract: In Hungary, whose education is the subject of this article, it has recently been recalled openly the "Ratio Educationis" published under Maria Theresia (1777), in which the connection between philanthropic and pragmatic conceptions prevailing in European pedagogy was revealed. The mention of this document appears in the reflection on the history of education, traceable to the Middle Ages. Its highlights are in the Reformation epoch, especially in the work of the teacher Janos Csere de Apacza (1625-1659) and in the contribution of Johannes Arnos Comenius (1592-1670) to school development through his many years in Sárospatak, and in the liberation movement of the 19th century The effects of the school policy and school practice are illustrated by the law of 1868. Finally, the educational activity of the short-lived Soviet Republic of 1919, whose Deputy Commissioner for Public Education was Georg Lukacs, is honored. (He was also Minister of Education under Imre Nagy in the Revolutionary Days of October 1956!)

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