From Alphabet to Academy

Abstract

Ako se zna da je prva državna četvororazredna osnova škola, tzv. narodna škola, u Zenici otvorena školske godine 1885/1886. (spomenimo i to da je 2381 godinu poslije Platonove osnovana Akademija u Zenici te Univerzitet koji je de facto krenuo s radom 2006.), onda je zaista teško zamisliti kako je institucionalno obrazovanje uopće (za)počelo na nekim drugim geografskim prostorima prije, možda, dvadeset i pet stoljeća. Jesu li te institucije nastajale stihijski ili racionalno-planski, jesu li bile sporadične ili organizirane, privatne ili državne, svjetovne ili duhovne? Ili su, pak, imale od svega toga pomalo, ovisno gdje su se javljale, na kojim geografsko-narodnim i (h)istorijsko-duhovnim koordinatama?Having in mind that the first state four-grade elementary school (so called “national school”) was founded in 1885/1886 in Zenica (let us remind on the fact that 2381 years after foundation of Plato’s Academy Zenica University started with its work – 2006), it is hard to imagine how the institutional education (in general sense of the word) began in other geographical sites 25 centuries ago. Were those institutions founded randomly or deliberately as rationally based planned projects, were they private or public, mundane or spiritual? Or, the foundation of educational institutions was the mixture of the above mentioned – depending on geographical, national, historical and spiritual coordinates