History Of College Life In Transylvania

Most likely you've seen me saying, I'm glad I live now and not back then, several times. I do this when I see how people have been living in the past. I've had my fair share of attending different schools at different levels and even though it has not been easy, I still prefer what I've had, rather than to go back and study like those students in the 18th, 19th century. The fortunate ones I mean, as the rest had no chance.

These exhibitions are quite different from what they used to be a couple of decades ago. With the latest technology, quite a lot is possible these days, so exhibiting a few items under glass is not the only thing you can expect to see, when visiting a museum.

This exhibition was organized to celebrate the 400 years anniversary of reformed colleges in Transylvania and I can honestly say, the designer did an excellent job and that they are real artists.

Look at this setup. How those old books are displayed.

Each floor board had one subject printed on it, in Latin of course as that was the main language in schools back in those days. I've seen this before, the steps of the university stairs have been painted like this, on different background colors as well. I've loved it.

The first one is a religious book, stories from the bible, from 1831, which makes this book 193 years old. Now obviously no visitor can touch it, but would be nice to see the content. Not for the stories, but for the drawings. I love those old drawings, illustrations. Unfortunately you don't find those in new books today.

The book in the middle is a math book, arithmetic for elementary school students and was issued in 1835. I'd love to have a look, to see what kind of math they were studying. Most of the books, if not all, were open to the first page, where the most important details were visible, so no chance of having a good look inside.

The last book was also a religious book. Religion played a huge role in people's life back then and education was also based on religion.

These books are extremely valuable now and I'm not referring to their monetary value. I don't think you can buy them anywhere, so most likely they don't have monetary value, but their historical value is inexpressible.

There was this handwritten book, but I'm not sure if it was a book, or just someone's notebook. However, being written by hand makes it more valuable in my eyes. I had a look and was thinking, even if I'd known the language, would probably take me years to read it. Handwriting back in those days was very different. I can't even tell what language it was written in, let alone read a word or two.

After reading the history of education in the 16th, 17th century, you leave with a totally different mindset, I can assure you. The book you see in the box was printed in 1581. There was no info about where it's been stored till now, but I'm glad it survived. These are treasures in our possession and need to be protected. Paper is not a long lasting material.

Seeing all these old science books, made me smile. It wasn't out of disrespect, trust me, but when you think of how much science has evolved since then, you know most of the information written in these precious books are most likely outdated, contradicted today and proven to be wrong. Most likely some are still true, but the majority is outdated.

What do you think about this? :)

Greek grammar and statistics. I've never studies Greek, but I have studied statistics and I bet I wouldn't understand a word that book is saying, or I would find it very easy. Would love to know which one would be the case.

This is a terrible photo, but what's on the photo is of great value and importance.

A stick used for enumerating students, dating back to the 19th - 20th century. As far as I know, the names of the students were carved on that piece of wood and the teacher read the list, called everyone to see if they were present. It was the first time I saw such thing, had no idea this is how it was done.

There was a short video rolling at the time of my visit, about a sad story I've written in one of my previous posts. I took a few shots and this was the scene, where the teacher was reading the names of the students. Have you ever seen such a thing?

For me, this visit was like an hour of time traveling in a world that I wish not to visit, but I'm glad I had the chance to learn about. So many things we don't know and can't appreciate what we have today.

I can't finish my post without making a note about something you may not notice. The two main elements of this part of the exhibition were wood and paper. I love both and can say, the quality and color of wood used here was absolutely amazing. The paper was given by the past, but I loved those too. Modern wood goes very well with old paper, although paper is on its way of disappearance. Unfortunately.

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