At the end of the 18th century, the rulers of the Habsburg dynasty, under the influence of Enlightenment ideas, passed the first decrees for the organization of the school system. For the first time in history, the state is directly approaching the regulation of education. The first published regulation Ratio educationis, due to certain shortcomings, receives its supplemented and improved version under the same name. In the area of Slavonia, which is divided into civilian and military parts, which make up the Slavonian Military Border, education is regulated differently. In order to make as much progress as possible in terms of education during the 19th century, the rulers enacted various legal regulations to regulate the school system. The school system is improving over the years, and with it the attitude towards education. Therefore, the number of schools increases with years, and the number of students accordingly. The inhabitants of Slavonia looked at the school with displeasure and the children very rarely went to school. In terms of regular education, the situation is greatly improved by the first Croatian independent school law at the time of the banning of Ivan Mažuranić.