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Report of the Governor to the Senate, about the resources of the monitorial school of Argos (Nafplio, 16 June 1831)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 21, no 136 Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE GOVERNOR EXPRESSES his sat- isfaction about the financial contribution of the lo- cal agents for the founding of the new monitorial school. At the same time, he puts forward the view that the land property of the old school should be sold at auction, with the aim to build the new one at a more suitable location, and asks for the approval of the Senate.
The monitorial method of teaching was the domi-
nant system in elementary education in Greece of the 19th century. It spread through the periodical Ερμής ο Λόγιος/Hermes Logios in 1816 with an in- troductory report of Georgios Kleovoulou, who had studied it in Paris. This specific teaching method, in which the best pupils, the so-called πρωτόσχολοι/ first in school, under the guidance of the teacher in- structed the rest, was used in England from the mid 17th cent. and was perfected in France by Sarasin.
ΙΙ.7.D.7
General Newspaper of Greece, sheet 34, p. 3 (Aegina, 5 March 1827)
Letter of a subscriber on the topic of the organization of theatrical performances on the island of Santorini (Syros, 23 February 1827) Library of the Hellenic Parliament
A SUBSCRIBER of the newspaper praises the initiative of the medical doctor Domenic- os Santorinaios to organize at his own expens- es theatrical performances on Santorini in the Carnival period, staging two comedies translat- ed from Italian and a work of P. Metastasio in Italian. As the same time, he turns against the Bishop of the Catholics («of the West Greeks») of the island, who was scandalized by the content
of the performances and forbade by means of «a sacred curse» his flock to attend them. The writ- er of the article deems as strange and ridiculous such a curse to be articulated by a civilized man and indeed a Frenchman: «As a European, Mr Peg, should have known that theatres are common ev- erywhere in Europe, and are not prohibited neither by the absolute monarchies, nor even by Monsei- gneur himself, the Pope [...]».
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