Speech in the Anniversary of the Opening of the Society for Elementary Books [...]

"Speech in the Anniversary of the Opening of the Society for Elementary Books made during the Session in March 7, 1776 by the Most Honorable Priest Piramowicz - Secretary of the Commission of the National Education in this Society".

Edition of Grzegorz Piramowicz’s speech delivered on the occasion of the first anniversary of the establishment of the Society for Elementary Books. The secretary of this society mentions the importance of the reforms undertaken by the KEN and the need to develop modern textbooks, adapted to the current state of knowledge and the needs of the nation. Piramowicz also provides information about the announcement in which Society for Elementary Books sent guidelines to authors regarding the development of new textbooks. It also lists the areas of knowledge that, according to the author, should be specially explored as part of the education of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.