Teaching and Erudition in the Environment of Lowland Slovaks
Teaching and Erudition in the Environment of Lowland Slovaks

Summary/Abstract: In the presented thesis, we tried to point out selected questions from the historyof the Lowland Slovaks. We took a closer look at the level of erudition and the formationof elementary education in the environment of Slovak emigrants in the period from theend of the 17th to approximately middle of the 19th centuries. Slovak evangelicals put greatemphasis on school education and attached essential importance to erudition. In theirnew homeland they almost immediately after their settlement started building the firstpublic institutions such as the church, parish house and school. In the presented thesis,we also referred to the importance of biblical Czech in the educational process and clarifythe basic aspects of elementary education in the Lowland.

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