We were in Podujeva. The schools were closed. […] Bajram and I went to visit them. The atmosphere was extremely heavy, the anxiety very great. I told them, the secondary schools were in question, I said, ‘Don’t worry, classes will continue in Albanian.’ That’s where the idea was born. Because at that time, I worked in the office of the Pedagogical Institute, where the Veterans’ Association is now, that’s where we had our offices. I worked until midnight, thinking what to do, how to do it. […] I knew there were around 10,000 police officers in Kosovo. I also knew that we had about 12,000 classes. There was no way to stop education when people wanted to be educated. Under those conditions, in the meadow, in the meadow; in the field, in the field; in the house, in the house.
Halim Hyseni was born on June 12, 1944, in Kapit, Medveđa. He completed the Shkolla Normale Milladin Popović in Pristina and the four years of the Pedagogy Faculty. He was Director of the pre-war Pedagogical Institute and after the war was one of the experts to design the educational system. During the 1990s, he was a key organizer of the parallel education system in Kosovo.