ABSTRACT
Although, as has been suggested, Yugoslav peasants by 1900 were beginning to feel a desire for some schooling for their children, it was not the peasant community which took the initiative in the provision of village schooling. In this, of course, Yugoslav society was not exceptional. It is a general rule that schooling starts in the towns and spreads out to the villages. The reasons which impel non-peasant society to organize a network of village schools are much alike in various parts of the world, but there are, of course, specific motives in each locality.
