The text deals with the topic Forming Pedagogy as a Science and the Problem of Exact Cognition in the Pedagogic Science within the debate at the turn of the 19th century. It serves as an example of forming Pedagogy in a 'non-German' way.
In the Czech countries of the Habsburg Monarchy, the development of Pedagogy at the end of the 19th century is represented by one educational centre - Karl-Ferdinand-University in Prague. The article devotes attention to the 'break time', when the Czech pedagogic discussion strongly absorbed positivistic and evolutionistic attitudes and we ask, if it was a specialy 'Czech way' of forming Pedagogy, or if it was a generaly way for the pedagogical discussion, to be free from 'German pedagogical power'.