Kinevezettekből vagy delegáltakból álljon a közoktatási tanács?
Should the Public Education Council be of Appointments or Delegates?

Summary/Abstract: In my study based on new documents found in connection with the beginnings of the National Council for Public Education (OKT), I first point out that some earlier patterns (mainly Prussian and French) played an important role in the formation of the body set up in 1871, four years after the Austro-Hungarian compromise put an end to the 18-year-long military dictatorship and absolutist rule over Hungary. The way in which foreign bodies were organized took on a hybrid character in some periods, as the members, or at least some of them, were not selected from above, unlike the medieval secret royal councils, but the principle of delegation also played a role. Proposals from a county school council and some teachers’ associations may have played a role in the fact that the OKT was organized in a hybrid way in the years after its formation, i.e. not only persons selected from above, but also delegated members, but later principle has been pushed into the background. Finally, I also point out in my writing that in several later phases of the history of Hungarian education councils, the conflict between the principles of delegation and top-down appointment and the application of hybrid solutions was observed.

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