Public school system of the Sibinj municipality between 1881 and 1886

Sa？etak The paper analyses the period of the seventies and the public-school system of the Sibinj municipality. The public administration sees it only as an expenditure and an unnecessary number of literate people on the market. Starting from themselves, their teachers are trying to find new ways, based on their knowledge, in order to improve both their working conditions and the quality of study for their own students. They encourage knowledge and education, rewarding their students with books, Christmas presents and offering them scholarships. Their salaries are better, but they have more work. Given the environment in Oriovac county, the schools from the Sibinj municipality belonged to the better ones. They organize professional meetings for other teachers and they are responsible for all the teacher activities in the Oriovac branch. New schools are founded in 1884, and a new school emerges in Gornji Andrijevci. Sibinj was special and known in a wider area because of its single-sex education and an apiary