STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1730, sig. 109-4/1485 (damaged)

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For those teachers who are unable to take part in these weekend courses due to poor transport opportunities, the main holidays are the setting up of the same courses lasting 3 weeks. 267 participants have registered so far, according to the previous experience it can be assumed that approximately 3/4 actually take the exam and thus in the coming years can be expected with approximately 2oo certified teachers for the main schools. As lecturers for these courses both university professors and experienced teachers of the upper schools were won. Education to the idea of the kingdom. In the Czech schools. Education to a thought of the empire is a problem that has not yet been solved. The means used so far have been directed exclusively to the mind, exhausting themselves in externality (equipment of the school rooms, corridors, sighting of the teachers' and the books of vision, subscription of magazines, attitude of the books recommended by the IB, etc.). However, an education to the Reich's idea without emotional attachment is divided into failures. The memorizing of certain topics from the areas of the new conditions in the Great German Reich is worthless and carries in itself only the danger that the education for the Reich's thanks into a civic education, as it was granted in the former Czech-Slovak state. At present, work is being done to make the Reich's idea of the principle of teaching in all subjects. This requires the reworking of the curricula, but first of all a fundamental question must be asked as to how far in the classroom it can be emphasized that the Czech people belong to the home country, a question that is still decided by the political authorities.