teachers´association; teachers´movement; Central Europe, moderniization; education; elementary schools

The importance of education as a part of the modernization process, which the European society experienced in the 19th century, is obvious. Elementary school teachers are only presented in relation to the process of alphabetizatin, professionalization, as well as awakening and strengthening of national awareness. They taught rational perception of the world, which was rapidly transforming in the 19th century