Kutatás-Fejlesztés – Tudományszervezési Tájékoztató, 1994

1. szám - Bibliográfia

SUMMARY Conceptions of the National Peasant Party on science and higher education It deserves attention that the smallest political party of the Hungarian parliament after World War II played the most progressive role in science policy. The objective of the Party's science policy was democratization on a national basis. Hungary's greatest authority on cultural policy Dezső Keresztury, minister of education representing the NPP wanted to build the education system upon the values of the past. He took justice, humanism, and Hungarian traditions to be the right objectives of education. Upon the request of Gyula Illyés, outstanding Hungarian poet, László Németh elaborated the reforms of higher education. He wanted to introduce entrance examinations in order to step up the standard of education and planned an original new system for the formation of teachers. However, neither the proposals of the National Peasants nor those of other parties were realized following the Communist takeover.