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

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AMÚSUlSba>L now used for the museums educational programme. An interactive room for those hard of hearing has been created in the former stable next to the school. They can learn about peasant life in the past with the help of audiovisual equipment. The 1868 Law of General Education passed as a result of pressure from József Eötvös, Minister of Education, is of outstanding importance in the history of Hungarian public education. The law obliged parents to send their children to school between the ages of 6 and 12 under pain of a penalty. That is when compulsory education began in Hungary. Elementary schooling began at six years of age. The law decreed among other things that children of poor families should not have to pay a fee and that every child, including minorities, should be taught in their tongue.