The National Education Commission for the duration of the appointment on October 14, 1773 as the central body of educational authority. KENrodu at the request of King Stanisław August Poniatowski, sanctioned by the Partitioning Council, approving the first partition of Poland. The Committee was composed of Lithuanian subcontractors: Joachim Chreptowicz, General of the Podole Lands and Cadet Cadet Adam Czartoryski, Vilnius Bishop Ignacy Massalski, Bishop of Płock Michał Poniatowski, Kopajnic Staroste Antoni Poniński, the youngest in the group, pedagogically gifted Ignacy Potocki, Gniezno Governor August Sułkowski and Chancellor crown Andrzej Zamojski. The National Education Commission faced the extremely difficult task of reforming Polish education, which, like the state, was plunged into a deep decline. A new era of turbulent development of civilization was approaching. The natural and mathematical sciences have been developing. The prestige of knowledge and education grew in Europe. Light and well-read people saw the necessity of making changes in the education of children and youth, which was not supported by the indifference to the affairs of the nobility and magnates.
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