Schools in pakaunė in independent Lithuania (1918-1940)

Straipsnyje aptariamos mokyklų steigimo ir darbo sąlygos Pakaunės regione. Ypač daug dėmesio skiriama mokytojų veiklos aplinkybėms, jų pastangoms visokeriopai rūpintis ir ugdyti jaunąją šalies kartą bei gerinti mokymosi aplinkas nepriklausomoje Lietuvoje. Aptariami mokyklų, kurios steigtos Lietuvoje, tipai. Straipsnio tikslas ir uždaviniai: apžvelgti Pakaunės mokyklų, įkurtų nepriklausomoje Lietuvoje, veiklą ir ypatumus, apibrėžti ryškiausias dvasines to meto mokytojų orientacijas ir jų veiklos svarbą ugdant mažą šalies žmogų. Objektas: mokyklos, kurios steigtos Pakaunėje 1918–1940 metais. Metodai: istorinis, aprašomasis, interpretacinis.During the times of Independent Lithuania, in the region of Pakaunė were established not only primary, but also specialized primary and vocational education and training schools. The four-year progymnasium, in which, besides the general education classes in the fourth grade the bookkeeping course was taught, was situated in Vilkija. The lower girls’ school of agriculture was founded in Karmėlava, the first in that time in Lithuania. On the 10th of September, 1920, in Freda, Garliava District, in the former Manor of Count Jozef Godlewski, the first horticulture school was founded in Lithuania. Although the teachers of that time were suffering from various disadvantages – they often had lessons in cold and under-heated rooms, the schools lacked training aids, there was shortage of books and school supplies – they diligently fulfilled their duties, realizing that they were teaching a new generation of their nation, on which the successful future of the entire state belongs