| dc.description.abstract | The article concerns the participation of the members of the dissolved Jesuit Order
in teaching the youth in the schools of The Commission of National Education. The
Polish historiography has been evaluating the ex-Jesuit teachers in many different ways –
often negatively. Despite the occurrence of few cases in which the ex-Jesuits resisted the
reforms, it should be noted that the vast majority of them joined the activity of the CNE
in the most difficult time of its work – when the legal and organisational basis of the new
school-system was being shaped, when there were problems with the proper assignment
of the pro-Jesuit scientific and educational materials, when new ideas were emerging, but
it was difficult to implement them due to the lack of tools such as handbooks or other
school materials, etc. The full background of the work carried out by the ex-Jesuit teachers
during the first ten years of the CNE existence includes their very hard financial situation
which often made them starving. The ex-Jesuits worked in almost all CNE units: in
the Commission’s headquarters, as members of the Elementary Books Society, inspectors
visiting district and regional schools, inspectors visiting parish schools in Lithuania,
rectors of school departments, school prorectors and prefects, school preachers, officers
at the Załuski Library. The largest group of ex-Jesuits working for the CNE consisted of
school teachers. | en_EN |
