Vicar Ioan Marian, Edifier of Pedagogical Education in Năsăud (Romania)
Vicar Ioan Marian, Edifier of Pedagogical Education in Năsăud (Romania)

Summary/Abstract: In this survey we aim to highlight the complex personality of the curate-educator Ioan Marian and to remind the contributions he dad to the development of social, educational and cultural life of the inhabitants and of the secular and Christian institutions in the Năsăudului County. His name is connected to the establishment of the first preparandial course for the teacher trainings, November, 1, 1837 in addition to the Normal School from Năsăud County, on the structure of which normal schools will appear later. In his dual quality, curate and director of the schools from Năsăud, he founded a school for girls, initially for daughters of the officers and officials of the regiment, and with time for all the girls from the county. Over time, he ordered the construction of schools in the frontier villages, was preoccupied to ensure favourable conditions for the effective conduct of the teaching process, he has set up the funds of schools in the 44 frontier villages, he has increased the salaries of teachers, he has set up school gardens where students learned pomiculture, he pleaded for the students to receive school supplies and books for free and has contributed to the education of people having hearing impaired and also of the training courses for teachers during the vacations.

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