Odgojno-obrazovno djelovanje fra Didaka Buntića
Educational and Character Development Work of fra Didak Buntić

Summary/Abstract: Fra Didak Buntić (1871 – 1922) is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, name of Herzegovina. He was a complete man: a priest, politician, builder, economist and educator. As no one else, he believed in the power of educational activity. He was a teacher and educator of his Croatian Herzegovinian people. He worked as teacher and headmaster of the grammar school at Široki Brijeg; as politician and priest he launched Croatian peasant schools of the Croatian National Community, worked out the original method of their operation and almost eliminated analphabetism in Herzegovina. Persistent in spreading literacy of the people, in promoting the Široki Brijeg Grammar School, and full of confidence in the educational mission of his Herzegovinian Franciscan Community, he believed in, with incredible enthusiasm and trust, in the need for his brethren to study at colleges all over Europe, so that, upon the completion of their studies, they could bring their acquired knowledge to their people and their Herzegovina.

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