English Translation

V e r m e r k about the work meeting of the Czech chief editor of Prague's main writings with the Minister of Education Kapras on 23.10.194l,10 o'clock. Present were by the more well-known principal writers Mr. Werner /Pol.list/, who had initiated the meeting, Ing.Vrba /Nar.Střed/, Scheinost /Listy/, Halik /Venkov/, Sedlaček /Ve- čer/, Pangrác /Melantrich-Verlag/, Brikcius /Vlajka/, Ryba /nar. Práce/, a total of about 15 people. Oberrat Kraus participated from the PD. K. first noted that unfortunately there was no direct contact between the Ministry and the press, in particular the Ministry itself did not have a press officer who would take care that the activity s-i was limited only to cutting out the news from the newspapers relating to its department, above all he wanted to stress that the attitude of the pupils was not solely the fault of the teachers, since they had only four to five hours with the pupils. Much of the blame must also be attributed to the family, to the street, i.e. to the public and to the various organizations. Through these external influences, the student is influenced by many ways of thinking with which the teacher must fight. It should also be borne in mind that relatively few shortcomings were found in school and that these were only individual cases, so one should not generalise. Of the 400 teachers who had been detained up to 28.9.194l, about 33,000 teachers and 8000 professors were relatively few and a large number were released again without further conclusions. So the whole thing was not so catastrophic. Certainly the public did not always look quite right at the teachership. In addition, K. gave a review of the regulations adopted by the Ministry in relation to the attitude of teachers, the re-education of pupils and teachers, etc., as a sort of proof of the activity of his department. He also published figures to show the extent to which the various courses for teachers/language courses, introduction to nat.soz. In addition, he pointed out the visit and the subsequent information of the teachers and pupils on the occasion of the exhibition "German Size" and the fact that the second course for historians is currently being held in Rankenheim near Berlin. Also, the inspection was made more rigorous and a more thorough supervision of the schools at all.