Difficulties Of the Executives of The ‘’ Educational Association’’ At the Beginning and During Its Operation

Abstract

The article deals with the executives of the Educational Association "Ekpaideftikós Omilos "(EO) at the beginning and during of its operation, from 1910 to 1930, in Greece. The Educational Association was founded by well-known and prominent people of the time, with the main purpose of improving Greek education and language and educational reform. Founders and executives sought to diffuse reformist ideas from the aristocratic society of their time. They faced several difficulties in cooperation, collecting the prejudice of the others while in 1920 Triantafyllidis leaves the Group for reasons of not getting along with Glinos. After 1920-1922, new ideological upheavals posed intense concerns to the speakers and contributed to its disintegration and later dissolution. The pioneers of the Group seemed quite concerned about the Idea of demoticism, their action was intertwined with the composition of their forces, although the contribution and distinct roles of the three are recognized, at the same time the particularly important presence of Glinos in the attempts at reform was clear. The work is going to investigate the ground, the preparation of the members of the EO and the general and special conditions that have prepared its creation. The method followed is the historical interpretive method of accessing evidence from several archives as well as relevant literature. The research demonstrates that the protagonists of the EO from the beginning experience many obstacles and difficulties in the mutual understanding and processing of the purpose of establishing their organization related to the recovery of Greek education and linguistic renewal with the use of the vernacular in school. It seems the lack of disposition of some for personal work and the strong prejudice of the people for the populists of the Group. At the same time, major ideological confrontations between Delmouzos and Glinos are erased, after the Asia Minor disaster and the arrival of refugees in Greece.