ON SOME PROBLEMS OF SCHOOL AND PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AZERBAIJAN IN THE 19TH CENTURY

Abstract

Investigation of the history of education and school is very important in terms of the study the progress of the overall spiritual development of society and culture. However, since the education in Azerbaijan was an integral part of tsarist Russia’s education system in the 19th century, the state of public education and its standards should be studied in the context of education policy pursued by the government in remote regions of the empire and in relationship with secular and religious education. Mass illiteracy, poor development of the secular education and rule of the tsar in charge of education as an instrument implementing national servitude were the major problems of the period. This and other issues related to public education, as well as issues related to the efforts of the national intellectuals for literacy of the people are being investigated in the article.