Şcoala confesională a românilor ortodocşi din protopopiatul Solnocului al II-lea în a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea
The Romanian Orthodox Confessional School from the Solnoc Second Deanery Describing the 2nd Half of the 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: The study is illustrating, on the base of historical documents, the educative situation of the orthodox Christians living in łara Lăpusului, Romanian county, in the second half of the 19th century, more specific, over a 23 years period of time. The oldest document that has been used is dated on 30th of November 1851, while the most recent one is dated on the latest months of the year 1874. I studied the confessional schools issues because, at that point, those wewre almost the only schools from Transylvania where the Romanian language could be used. After the 1848 revolution, the Romanian confessional learning is having its real progress. This fact is a result of the clerical mentality, at that point, regarding the major role of the scholar education, as one of the most appropriate method the church is having for rising the social, cultural and economical standard of the other nationalities living into the Austrian Empire. On the other hand, there was a hidden danger in the state’s lows of education which was of a great use converted into an impulse to do their best at that time. The problems that could occur if those standards were not respected, could lead to conversion of the confessional schools in local ones, fact which was equivalent to the imminent using of the Hungarian language as a teaching language instead Romanian, and the total control of the State over those schools. A major role, during all this reluctant attitudes, hard times for the Romanian orthodox Christians, belongs to the great bishop of the Transylvanian Orthodox Church, Andrei Saguna. He was the one who observed closely the whole process of the Romanian confessional learning during this period of time. At the end of the time we can clearly say that there were registered important and real progresses regarding the quality of the educational process, the material and methods that were used and the efficiency of the confessional schools.

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