First Albanian Teachers

In 1891, the Albanian elite city Corca, the city of knowledge and the first Albanian teacher, would mark and open a school for girls. It was a big step towards time. Maybe the most modern. At a time when the Ottomans ruled for five hundred years, who had kept the Albanian people in obcurantism, and especially the female, opening a school for the girls would be a crucial turning towards emancipation.

Being a teacher at the time for males was difficult because life was at any time threatened by Turks, and Greek chauvinist circles, which condemned any attempt to learn Albanian. It is not uncommon when those preaching Albanian and the first teachers died in a terrible and mysterious manner.

But the generation of Albanians growing up at the time would truly be the golden generation of the Albanian nation. They worshipped the nation, they were educated in such a spirit, where life was nothing before this precious ideal. And they gave everything for the ideal. It was an amazing Albanian spirit.

Kyrias sisters would be part of that spirit, part of that ideal called Nation. And they would accomplish something that wasn't even meant to become reality until then. They'd be the first Albanian teachers at the girls' school and years later they'd become her directors. What courage, what a triumph, what strength!

You're impressed with their career at a time of obcurantism. But they did. Both on the journey of Albanian education, the more just they can be described as the twin precious Albanian.

You can't do for poor Albania”

For Severine this was the order and <x0) Naim Frasher's, when he met her in Istanbul and signed her high education degree at the Turkish Ministry of Education.

And in fact, both would shine on their careers in a difficult country like Albania, making valuable contributions not only to education but also to the emancipation of the Albanian woman.

They were inseparable in their activities until death did. Together they would be the first teachers of the girls' school, then they would go to Romania and America to make an undisputed contribution and to the magazine <x0YIIEII of the morning” in America.

What would change a little bit more of these patriotic activists and among the most cultured in Albanian life would be Paraschevia. Her results would be brilliant.

The Parasev Kyrias will be born on June 2nd 1880 in Manastir. First and high school was to be performed in her native country. She will then continue her studies at the Istanbul girls' college at the literature branch and will be noted for her student activities.

Her big dream was to contribute to Homeland. At a golden time where patriotic activity was at its height the most brilliant people of the Albanian nation devoted themselves to national ideas and especially to the issue of Albanian language. So she's going to be a teacher and a few months later she's going to head in the Vasha Albanian School in Korca.

Parashiria will attend the Assembly of the Monastery, where the Albanian alphabet was drafted, and it would compile the famous song of the alphabet.

On January 16, 1909, Parascevia will draw up on the new alphabet, established by the Albanian Abyssary Monastery Congress, which is the first text drafted in the new alphabet.
In 1912 she'll be enrolled in the university professorial studies at Oberlin College in Ohio, U.S.A. And there she would shine with her doctorate theme that was: “The development of schools in the Turkish Empire and an ideal educational system in Albania. ”

In America it drafted and the teaching program of the Interim Government of Ismail Kemal.
Because of the start of World War I in 1914. During the end of the year, he participated in the creation of the “Albanian National Party” in Sofia, where he will be secretary.

During 1917-1920 it will stay in the United States, where it will open a magazine known as “this morning star”. In 1913 she is appointed director of the Vasha School in Korca, which will then open in Tirana.
In the years of the Nazi occupation, he will be arrested and exiled to concentration camps. After the liberation, the Kyrias Institute will be nationed. And he'll make his life dark as a patriot teacher. /KultPlus. com