This paper deals with emergence and development
of a large and significant secondary-school collection, the
natural-history collection of the Royal general-programme
secondary school in Osijek, since ...its foundation in 1870
until 1939. Annual secondary-school reports served as a
fundamental source.
Secondary-school collection comprised 922 mineral
samples in 1872, 140 sea plant samples and 264 stuffed bird
samples and other animals. Natural history collection was
founded as a result of individual gifts, redemption amounts
and also by gathering materials during school excursions.
Among givers the most numerous were secondaryschool
pupils and their professors and many Osijek citizens.
The High royal national government, National mineralogical-
geological museum in Zagreb and others excelled
as givers. Donations were mostly single samples or lesser
groups and some givers gave more dozens of natural items.
From the school year 1876/77 natural-history classroom
devices were classified according to scientific disciplines
into the zoological, botanical and mineralogical collection.
Natural-history collection comprised 419 animal samples,
383 plant samples and 754 mineral samples in 1877. Since
1879/80 the number of natural-history pictures was also added
along with the number of each specific collection and
since 1887/88 a number of particular collection was perused
from the teaching aid collection.
A radical decline of the sample number of naturalhistory
collection started in the school year of 1894/95 and
continued in 1896/97 and was over in the school year of
1897/98. In that period the number of mineralogical and
geological samples diminished from 1008 to 248 samples
and zoological samples from 793 to 292. In the observed
period the botanical collection enlarged immensely but until
the end of the period it diminished to a nearly starting
sample amount. The total value of natural-history collection
in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries was 2082
kruna and 18 forint. Since 1935/36 the natural-history collection
was arranged separately for the Zoological, Botanical,
Mineralogical and Geological collection and from next
year for Anthropological collection when the teaching aids
were divided into natural preparations, models and pictures
within specific collections. Last actual data of main natural-
history collection number shows that in 1938/39 the
collection comprised a total of 998 samples : Anthropology
: 14 natural preparations, 14 models and 3 pictures, Zoology
: 227 natural preparations, 1 model and 111 pictures,
Botany : 60 natural preparations, 30 models, 40 pictures, 7
microscopes, 70 microscope kits and 1 plant press, Mineralogy
: 238 minerals, 23 models and instruments and Geology:
95 stone samples, 18 fossils and 46 pictures.
Prosvjetni rad je od početaka Družbe Isusove bio jedna od najvažnijih njezinih djelatnosti. Trebalo je proći 50 godina do nastanka konačne verzije „ratio studiorum“, najuspješnijeg plana studija u ...povijesti školstva. Isusovačke škole u Hrvatskoj bile su dio europske mreže škola. Varaždinski kolegij otvoren svečano je otvoren 18. prosinca 1678. godine, gimnazija čak 40 godina ranije. Velikim brojem učenika (uvijek oko 300) ubraja se među najznačajnije kolegije na ovom području. Nastava i cjelokupni život bili su organizirani prema već spomenutom „ratio studiorum“. Glavni predmeti bili su latinski i književnosti. Plan je propisivao cjelokupni radni dan: nastavu, domaće zadaće, vježbe, duhovne i liturgijske aktivnosti te slobodno vrijeme. Naglasak nije bio samo na stjecanju znanja već i na odgoju: školsko kazalište, akademije, humanitarni rad, molitva itd. Sve do ukidanja isusovačkog reda 1773. godine varaždinska gimnazija i kolegij imale su važnu ulogu u ondašnjem prosvjetnom sustavu Hrvatske. Koliko je ovaj rad cijenio ondašnji hrvatski sabor pokazuje činjenica da je rektorima varaždinskog i zagrebačkog kolegija dodijeljeno stalno mjesto u saboru.
Med drugo svetovno vojno so nas Nemci izselili iz Celja v Srbijo. Leta 1944 sem v Beogradu obiskovala gimnazijo. Na fotografiji moje sošolke in profesorji.Fotografijo prispevala Ines Vučkovič.
IV. letnik Nižje gimnazije v Pivki, šolsko leto 1956/57. Spredaj sedi večji del tedanjega učiteljskega zbora z ravnateljem Janezom Bezeljakom v sredi. Od leve proti desni sedijo: 1. neprepoznana – 2. ...Boža Troha – 3. ravnatelj Bezeljak – 4. Anica Modic – 5. Sonja Štrubelj – 6. Marija Černač – 7. neprepoznana – 8. Janez Casoll. Na skrajni levi čepita 2 dijaka, na skrajni desni pa še eden. Vseh je čez 40, preveč za en oddelek, vendar za tiste čase »normalno«.
Janez Bezeljak, dolgoletni ravnatelj osnovne šole v Pivki, med najstnicami, v pusti učilnici, ki je premogla le tablo in kredo, zato pa oddelke s po štiridesetimi in več učenci oz. dijaki. V ...tedanjiih šolskih reformah je učitelj Bezeljak poučeval tudi matematiko in fiziko na novonastali nižji srednji šoli, gimnaziji.
Gimnazija Postojna je bila srednjevelika šola, prav tak kolektiv, ki je namenjal dosti pozornosti notranji družabnosti. Tudi z domišljenimi sindikalnimi izleti. Tako smo se znašli tudi v Bohinju in ...na Voglu. Tovrstna prizadevanja so se pozitivno odražala v naši pedagoški naravnanosti.Na fotografiji v 1. vrsti sedijo: Božo Levec in Boža Brecelj, slavista, Alojz Baša, učitelj tehničnega pouka, v 2. vrsti pa še Ana Renčelj, profesorica nemščine in Evgen Dujc, zgodovinar; stojimo: Silvo Fatur, slavist in tedanji ravnatelj, Lavra Šušteršič, profesorica biologije, Ela Lenassi, profesorica zemljepisa, Franc Zupan, zgodovinar, Natalija Bratina, profesorica kemije in Franc Komovec, matematik in fizik.
Fotografija prikazuje panoramo Novega mesta. Vidi se gradnja novomeške gimnazije, ki jo je že leta 1746 ustanovila Marija Terezija. Obnovljeno stavbo (na levi strani fotografije) so slovesno otvorili ...12.10.1912.
