Prosvjetiteljsko - Obrazovni Doprinos Fra Didaka Buntića
Enlightenment - Educational Contribution of Father Didak Buntić

Summary/Abstract: Using the scientific method of content analysis the contribution of Father Didak Bunti in the educational field in Herzegovina is to be shown. Through the analysis of thoughts, notes and testimonials of particular authors and his contemporaries, the author comes to the key thesis that Father Didak Bunti was truly a great man of the spirit of Enlightenment. Father Didak was always led by the thought that without enlightened people there is no general progress. His public activities began in 1895, after the arrival from Jesuit studies in Innsbruck, when he became professor in the secondary school in Široki Brijeg which he man-aged to raise to a high level and to obtain general right of public through twenty years of his educational work. Parallel to his work in the secondary school he initiated educational revolution against illiteracy in Herzegovina which, through its Croatian Peasant Schools, awoke more than 16,000 peasants in Herzegovina form ignorance and illiteracy. His schools of writing, reading and exemplary behavior soon spread beyond geographical boundaries of Herzegovina and also found breeding ground in Bosnia, as well as some parts of Croatia. In addition, his enlightenment-educational contribution is ascertained by constructing the secondary school building, boarding school for external students and sending the most talented students to study abroad. These actions were fruitful, so his secondary school in Široki Brijeg had grown into one of the best secondary schools in the whole of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia

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