To educate happy and content people.
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Jiří Klaban was born on the 9th of July 1930 in Hradec Králové, but he spent his whole life in Pardubice. His parents were small traders. After the end of the war in 1945, inspired by the books of Jaroslav Foglar, he was with some 150 other enthusiasts at the renewal of the Pardubice Scout troops. \he graduated from forestry school in Štiřín in 1948 and began making mountain expeditions with his friend Miloš Potěšil. Jiří completed secondary school in 1948, but his parents‘ origins caused him to be refused from the University of Chemistry and Technology (VŠCHT) in Prague, a year later (with work experience from the chemical plant in Semtín) he was accepted to the newly created VŠCHT in Pardubice, where he gained an Engineer‘s degree (Master‘s level - transl.) in 1954. While at university, he met his future wife, whom he married in 1956. They are still together. In 1968 he was at the the renewal of the Pardubice Scout troops, after a further ban, his troop began to function under the Pioneers, though he still tried to keep up the Scout traditions and values. After 1989, the troop smoothly moved back under the auspices of the Scout Movement; Jiří Klaban was at the founding of the Pardubice Rovers clan PARS, with which he organised expeditions at home and abroad, and also activities for the public. Jiří Klaban left PARS in 1994, in 1998 he and some friends founded the Scout University of Pardubice, which organised lectures and debates on the topic of the future direction of the Scout Movement. Since 2008 he devotes himself mostly to Old-scout camps.
