Új Pedagógiai Szemle

The article aims to demonstrate that the atrocities that took place in the Szőlő Street Reformatory over the past decade—as well as how all this came to light and what happened thereafter to the institution and the young people placed there—is a case in the Hungarian educational and social sector, that has in fact occured elsewhere as well, in the past and in the present. Because the system has been struggling with serious problems for decades, which the public only occasionally learns about. After all, there are serious obstacles and risks to narration and discussion. The author formulates his criticism by recalling his own, personal, never-spoken experiences from his pedagogical career. From the case that became a political scandal, he reads a painful chapter of social, professional, and community history and an urgent lesson in self-knowledge.