How was reform of the education and private education like before World War II? How did various dictatorships tolerate alternative educational methods? When did children republics begin? What Was the Time in Bánk like? What does 'classy' mean? Who wore bear hats? Who was Eszter Leveleki? The Ethnographic Museum's exhibition entitled <em>Counter Pedagogy at the Lake</em> is aiming at revealing private holiday making in Bánk in the period between 1938 and 1978, based on self-archiving.


Providing holidays for children in Bánk was initiated by Eszter Leveleki , who set up summer camps in the pre-war spirit of reform pedagogical practices, placing emphasis on spontaneity, individual and collective creativity, and also "shaping experience of co-existence", namely, the power of community. After the war, most of the participants were children of middle-class families, of which many families where the parents and grandparents of victims or survivors of the Holocaust. From the 1950s onwards, beside or against the official pedagogy and pioneer camps holiday for children in Bánk was a kind of pedagogical experiment, which typical of the era, was organized informally, semi-legally, operated as a small community-based ties.

The research was launched in February 2011 by the AnBlokk Association as part of their education program against which aimed to reveal the particular organizations of the Kádár Era. The exhibition is the result of the cooperation of the Association and the Ethnographic Museum, involving various scientific researchers and other scientific fields, by showing relics from private archives and the results of the researches so far translated into visual, in other words, exhibition language.

"Eternal Law, is what we can name today , we will not be afraid of tomorrow, with that we will treat more freely, we can feel about it as our own. This does not only apply for objects but people, or children as well. "</p>
(Eszter Leveleki)