Zakon od 14. listopada 1874. ob Ustroju pučkih škola i preparandija za pučko Učiteljstvo u kraljevinah Hrvatskoj i Slavoniji
The Law from 14th October 1874 the System of Public Schools and Public Education in the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the first autonomous Croatian school law which despite numerous controversial meanings for Croatia and for the then school situation was one of the most liberal school laws in Europe. Many of its determinants are still current today, applicable and instructive in Croatia's modern public schooling, but when they came into force they caused disagreements and heated discussions between the church and the liberal ideas whose greatest supporter was Ivan Filipović. This law has brought a great deal of unrest amongst advocates of the intention that Croatian schools in the second half of the 19th century should serve the development of national consciousness and that a united Croatia in this way could equally and fully autonomously participate in the general process of society as a whole. Serbs in Croatia did not accept this law as they thought that it “undermines their rights and their identity”. The law gave a better framework of the education and teachers' long-established education standards. What it meant for the then Croatian schooling will be discussed more on the following pages.

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