(CZ) Názory Jana Evangelisty Purkyně na výchovu a vzdělání
(EN) Jan Evangelist Purkinje's conception of education and instruction

Purkinje returns to Prague at the time of the low est decadence of concordat school when the whole education was submitted to the interests of Church. Purkinje’s proposals concerning some grades of school serve to the urgent need of a school-reform .
He considers the education as a process in which the older generation hands down its experinences to the younger one. The aim of education which he understand not as an unchangeable and commonly valid process, but as something depending on the nationality and social environment, is the universal humanily. He don’t demand knowledge for knowledge itself, but a knowledge which serves to the wellbeing of society. He postulates a democratization of universal and special education and demands a standard school. The school ought to agree with the life, but the special schools should be based on the universal education. He required the separation of the Church from the state. From this standpoint he also determines the educational system. Greatest attention he gives to the grammar school of his time which should last six years with two cycles of three years. The highest grade of the second cycle should be divided in two sections (preparation for the practical life and for the University). The universities should possess preparatory schools of two years. Purkin je recomends a higher number of faculties, among them the university education for teachers. On the decline of his life he was occupied with plans on institution and organisation of an Academy. Besides the cultivation of sciences the Academy ought to provide the supervision of the whole education as well as its control.