Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

IX Western Transdanubia - IX-5 School from Kondorfa

IX IX-5 School from Kondorfa clean with a sponge when the work was completed. The teachers table with the bell on it stands on a platform at the front next to the blackboard and the abacus. Pictures and contemporary maps hang on the walls alongside racks for the childrens satchels. The teacher and his family (his wife and child) lived in the back room, which also opened from the kitchen. The teacher; "the day-labourer of the nation" was always addressed as 'Sir' by the villagers. He was also the cantor of the congregation leading the singing and playing the organ in the church. He read a lot, subscribed to a paper; and had books of his own. He was paid partly in money and partly in kind with the villagers supplying him with milk, butter; eggs and the like. Grain was also given to him and the quantity was measured out in a staved wooden vessel known as a bushel. After school the teacher would till his land just like the peasants. The school from Kondorfa is It was master carpenter János Györké, who built the school for György and Mihály Kovács in 1826. It is a wooden building with a thatched roof, vaulted chimney and a porch. It functioned as the Catholic school of the village for a time around i860, and also served as the teachers home. The furniture reflects the atmosphere of church schools during the 1880s. All the children were taught in the same room. Students sat at benches built to legal specifications. They wrote on writing slates using slate pencils which could be wiped