Editing Marin Preda (section)

=== Education ===
In September 1929, the teacher Ionel Teodorescu enrolled Marin Preda in the first grade, but Preda's father did not let him attend, as he usually enrolled his children only at the age of 8. The following year, Preda was re-enrolled in the first grade in his native village. Due to the family's rural lifestyle, Preda participated in agricultural work at home, which meant that he was often absent from school. Gradually, however, he proved to be among the best students in his grade, and was awarded for his academic success (this childhood scene was later evoked in his novel ''[[Moromeții]]'').

The year 1933–1934 (4th grade) was one of the hardest in the student's life: his father could no longer buy textbooks and came down with malaria. Due to the intervention of a teacher, Preda was lent books and was able to complete the school year. When he could not find school supplies in his village, he borrowed textbooks from the neighbouring communes. With repeated pleas and insistence, he obtained a promise from his mother that she would convince his father to send him to a teaching academy.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

Between 1934 and 1937 he attended grades five to seven, being taught by Ion Georgescu from the neighbouring village of [[Balaci]]. The teacher would remember in his old age that the student Marin Preda "was a dreamer in the classroom", but that "he did well in writing", and that on a given topic about the Union of Principalities Preda did "sensational work".{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

He finished 7th grade with an overall average of 9.78. Preda's final graduating exam was taken at the Central School in [[Ciolănești]] (a commune ten kilometres away from Siliștea Gumești). On 18 June, Preda was issued graduation certificate no. 71, with a general average of 9.15 in all classes.{{Relevance?|date=July 2022}}