{"id":3251,"date":"2013-06-12T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2018-07-25T15:09:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T15:09:02","slug":"the-old-school-is-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/product\/the-old-school-is-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"The old school is closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_2072\"<\/a>After 170 years of educating, having destroyed each and every illiterate person by teaching them how to read and write, the state school in Zlarin shut down, once a bright spot of enlightenment and progress. It\u2019s not because of the building, it\u2019s not because of the shortage of teachers, it\u2019s not even because of someone, such as the village chief and the patrol chief, who were in 1846 accused of showing \u201ca constant aversion to the existence of a school in Zlarin\u201d, but simply because there are no children that could attend school on our beautiful and noble isle.<\/p>\n

Maybe there would be children if they didn\u2019t have to go to kindergarten, or to music school or to dance school, or to the playroom in \u0160ibenik. Time takes its toll. From a town with 2000 inhabitants in the 19th century, we became a settlement with around 200 inhabitants. In 1845, except for the human inhabitants, there was also a horse, 200 donkeys, 600 sheep and 20 pigs. Now we don\u2019t have a single jackass or any livestock, except for Jo\u0161ko\u2019s two sheep.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve lost the status of a municipality, our port captaincy, our customs office, our military base, our financial station, our naval sanitary office, even our fishmonger\u2019s shop, and now our school, which had been educating us for 170 years. Even in times when there was no school on Zlarin, we were literate and proud of having written the Parish Register of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Ra\u0161elje, which contained a unique set of rules for the proper conduct of friars and for helping the ones in need, written in the ancient Zlarin Croatian dialect, in the Middle Ages, under Venetian rule, in 1456. All that is nice, but the school is a symbol of life.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2073\"<\/a>We\u2019ve been moving out of the island for centuries, the most over the last 60 years. We\u2019ve been moving to \u0160ibenik, Split, Rijeka, Zagreb and all the countries of the world, for it is unfortunately impossible to live off the sea and a little poor soil. No one has ever, except for Jerko Alfier\u2019s former carpenter\u2019s shop and electric central, invested a single penny in the development of the island. Where there\u2019s no job, there\u2019s no life, and there can\u2019t be any children where people don\u2019t live. We expected something from those who had been promising a lot, but didn\u2019t do anything to help the development of the island and to help ensure places to live, on the island whose guests call it a paradise when they come for the first time, and they return to it, even though it deteriorates year after year, despite all the new buildings of the new people who admire its green beauty, clean sea, peace and the most beautiful sunset.<\/p>\n

The last students, two members of the Celi\u0107 family (and if it weren\u2019t for them the school wouldn\u2019t even have lasted as long) have enrolled in fifth grade in \u0160ibenik, and their diligent teacher, who would come to school every day because of five, four, three, sometimes even two students and prepare them for life, has gone with them. Dear teacher, Marijana Raj\u010di\u0107, we envy your new pupils in \u0160ibenik, eagerly expecting your return.<\/p>\n

FROM THE HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL IN ZLARIN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_2082\"<\/a>In the year 1909, the state school in Zlarin had two teachers. The seamen of Zlarin were sought-after everywhere, but they couldn\u2019t get the necessary qualifications because they had no money to live in towns where there were maritime schools. The founding of an \u201cinternship course of a nautical school\u201d in Zlarin was proposed. The Provincial Assembly of the Kingdom of Dalmatia approved of the proposal and proposed to the Provincial School Council to organize the course in Zlarin, \u201cdeeming the locality quite apt for such a school.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his History of Zlarin, Bernard Stulli quotes that these reasons weren\u2019t paramount to the Austrian rulers, who ignored this request from Zlarin because of a general indifference towards the Dalmatian economy. Instead of the approval of the naval course, the Zlarin municipality received on June 24, 1909, a notification that the tsar and king from Vienna had approved that the new pier that was under construction in Zlarin be \u201cto the memory of the majestic 60 year anniversary of reigning\u201d named after His Majesty.u<\/p>\n

Now, not quoting Stulli anymore, I must say that the never finished palace in Trebari\u0107eva Street, which was being built by the Alfier brothers for the purpose of the naval course and the future maritime school, has ever so majestic remained as an everlasting monument to all authorities\u2019 unconcern for Zlarin.<\/p>\n

We, the people of Zlarin, even today call it a factory, as we do all ruins of houses without roofs. The failed course and the basis for a middle school was preceded by the opening of a state school in 1843. Before that, the first people who taught children and the common folk how to read and write were our Glagolitic priests.<\/p>\n

\"mb\"<\/a>Zlarin, June 12, 2013<\/p>\n

Mladen Bja\u017ei\u0107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 170 years of educating, having destroyed each and every illiterate person by teaching them how…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tz-zlarin.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}