‘Klebelsberg believed that “today it is not the sword but culture that can keep the Hungarian homeland alive and make it great again”, and he considered it important not only to educate the Hungarian elite but also to develop the education of the people. Legislation published in 1926 provided for the construction of 3,500 new classrooms and 1,750 teachers’ dwellings, in the following order: first, in isolated rural districts without schools, then in villages without schools, and finally in overcrowded urban schools.’