Židikai Marija Pečkauskaitė secondary school () is a secondary school located in

Židikai Židikai (Samogitian language, Samogitian: ''Žėdėkā'') is a town in Mažeikiai district municipality, Lithuania. It is located 21 km west of Mažeikiai. Židikai is the seat of Elderships of Lithuania, Židikai elderate. Židikai is know ...

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

. This school is the oldest one in the

Mažeikiai district municipality Mažeikiai District Municipality (, ) is located in the north-west of Lithuania, on the River Venta in Telšiai County. The administrative center of Mažeikiai District is the city of Mažeikiai. Its territory of is composed of of towns and ...

. It was founded in 1865. In 1989, the name of

Marija Pečkauskaitė Marija is a feminine given name, a variation of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ, or Mariam, and Μαρια, or Maria, found in the New Testament. Depending on phonological rules concerning consecuti ...

was given to the school to honor famous author and educational

Šatrijos Ragana Šatrijos Ragana ("Witch of Šatrija") was the pen name of Marija Pečkauskaitė (; March 8, 1877 – July 24, 1930), a Lithuanian humanist and romantic writer and educator. Her most successful works are (''In the Old Estate'', 1922) and ''Irko ...

, who lived in

from 1915 until she died in 1930.

Principals of the school

* Juozas Garška (1940–1948) * Algirdas Gailius (1949–1956) * Irena Paulauskienė (1956–1958) * Birutė Kekienė (1959–1964) * Aleksandras Bašermanovas (1964–1969) * Vytautas Rimiškis (1969–1975) * Alfonsas Dagys (1975–1985) * Paulius Perminas (1985–1990) * Andrius Meinorius (1990–1993) * Rima Širvinskienė (1993–present)

External links

Official pageSchool' page in project "Drąsinkime ateitį"
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