Hungarian Education, Folk Thought

Abstract

The populist ideology serves the social integration helping close the untraversable gaps between casts.Th is concept was generated by the social crisis between the World Wars when mobility hardly had a chance. The fourmain characters of this essay are Sándor Karácsony, Zoltán Kodály, Áron Márton and László Németh.Th eir thoughts are very similar, they wanted to harmonize the thinking of the intellectuals, peasants and poor blue-collar workers. Shaping of thinking was a pedagogical goal for them and they all wanted to promote the spiritual and social rise of the poor. The essence of their pedagogical aims is that learning should be an experience and everybody should be able to rise from their own cultural background.