Education - Idvor
Elementary school in Idvor where Mihajlo Pupin studied |
His first classes were history
classes - quite typical for his surroundings. Here, all
skills could be gained with practical work, which was
the essence of the living. People were just telling about
the past and the world and relations in it were seen only
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the Bible, national
poetry and kults as the one of St. Sava.
His first education Mihajlo got in the village school
in Idvor. Later, he mentioned that he hated this, admitting
that reading, writting and counting seemed like a real
torture, back then.
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| This was reasonable, knowing
that he could compare cheerfull neighbourhood, all those
people who came from the world and he met them, and formality
of school tables and monologues of teachers. |
Reconstructed classroom from Pupin's age
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Clearly, he found this as
a stopping him to enjoy in his freedom and happiness.
But, one person managed to get him out of this disappointment
and convince him to become educated. It was his mother
Olimpijada, a woman of the people, who gave him some advice,
and told him about the importance of the education, showing
her own example. |
Elementary school in Idvor is named "Mihajlo Pupin" |
His mother used to say to him that she
feels as though she was blind, because she didn't know
to read nor write, and that she couldn't possibly leave
the village all by herself. Mihajlo always remembered
one of her advice: |
| "My child, if you
want to see the world, you were always listening about,
you have to have another pair of eyes-the one for reading
and writting. There is so many things in the world you
can't know if you don't know how to read and write.
Knowledge can take you to the sky, it gives a light
at our way and takes us to the eternal life".
Listening to his mother, Mihajlo became the best pupil
in the school, so that his teacher and the priest agreed
that this school is to small for him, and that he should
go to continue his education in Pančevo.
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Mihajlo Pupin's born house is completly reconstructed
and conservated for the anniversary. [further] |
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