Home of the teacher training students: the Primary School Teachers’ House in Kalocsa

Abstract

Our research presents the boarding school of the Roman Catholic primary school teachers’
training institution in Kalocsa: the Primary School Teachers’ House (1897-1950). The pioneering
initiative brought to life by the Roman Catholic Primary School Teachers’ Association
of the Kalocsa area could be realized with the help of the church suggested in its name.
With its more than 50 year long existence it played a decisive role not only in the life of the
primary school training of Kalocsa, but nationally as well and it contributed to the shaping
of the personality of the future primary school teachers. The institution received the students
of the primary school teachers’ institution and of the grammar school as a kind of boarding
school, where they got unifi ed moral, physical and religious education in cooperation with
the school.