Wychowanie do przedsiębiorczości w systemie szkolnym i edukacji pozaszkolnej na ziemiach XIX‑wiecznej Polski porozbiorowej
Education toward entrepreneurship in the school system and in extra-school education in the lands of 19th-century post-partition Poland

Author(s): Beata Gdak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: entrepreneurship; money; lap of luxury; thrift; richness
Summary/Abstract: The author wonders if the young people in the Period of Partitions in Poland in the 19th century were being educated to entrepreneurial development. Basing on some historical sources, for example, diaries and memories of Anna Potocka and Anna Dzieduszycka, the author focuses attention on what could be considered to be education for entrepreneurship in noble families in those times. The education system, for example in the region of Warsaw Principality, was reviewed in the text. The author shows that the elementary school curriculum (both in countries and in towns) included besides reading, writing and maths, practical skills, for example land measurement, the foundations of law and trade. Although those practical skills were very useful for the young people starting to work on the farm, in industry, crafting, and trade, they can not be regarded as the part of a systemic and intentional shaping of entrepreneurial attitudes in the young people in those times.

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