English Translation

The Beseda in Iglau, the first social and cultural centre of the Czechs there, had already been founded in 1871. After twenty years of existence, the BesEDA house was opened and thus the popular cultural work of Czechism was advanced. After numerous donations and gifts, the Beseda in Iglau succeeded in the establishment of a Czech kindergarten even before the World War. After the end of its activities in World War II, it developed an increased activity during the Czechoslovak Republic and was significantly involved in the construction of Czech minority schools in the People's Island. Their supporters are without exception regarded as enthusiastic champions of Czech folk-work. In German folk-island circles, therefore, the undesirable continuation of the Iglauer Beseda, which today is to be regarded as a collection basin of Iglau national Czechism, has been pointed out several times in recent times. In the Czech school system, the Czech teacherry has recently proved, and from this often also the studentry influences its undiminished anti-German attitude. The observations carried out within the Czech teacherry largely indicate the absence of any understanding of a youth education in the sense of the political reorganization in Bohemia and Moravia. As individual cases prove, the studentship does not always agree with the statements and opinions of its educators. Raudnitz (OLB Kladno) became, for example, a member of the school. Reported that a teacher of the local agricultural middle school often used the term "protento krát" (in German "for this time") in front of the whole class instead of the expression "protector's council"; he also told the students that the French noble people, the Germans, were, however, barbarians. On Masaryk, he told the pupils that although he was not allowed to treat them in the course of teaching, he still had to do so. In many cases, the pupils showed little understanding of their teacher's actions. In Milotitz (OLB Zlin), the head of the local elementary school instructed a teacher to take 3/4 hour calculation lessons at the end of the class because the teacher had opened and opened the windows on the occasion of the dyrching of German troops. the children were asked to welcome the German soldier, which had also been enthusiastically followed by the children. A middle school teacher at the First Czech Commercial School in Prague spoke during the history lessons