O kształceniu językowym w odwołaniu do dawnych mistrzów

The paper presents the issue of language education in the contemporary Polish school, which is outlined against the background of the ideas of the interwar period’s linguists and teaching specialists. The presented text contains basic differentiation of the tasks that school should fulfill within the scope of one’s mother tongue acquisition. The teaching process can be based on the course of grammar system or on performance and emulation, which was already discussed almost hundred years ago and has since provided the foundation for main educational concepts. The paper is particularly focused on spelling which is a predominantly neglected field.