Historical tradition tells us that conditions and the way of life in the family, schooling and leisure are the main ways of values transmission, children being the focus of secular experience and wisdom sharing. Later this younger generation becomes responsible for the protection of folk values. Nowadays when we are facing a spiritual crisis characterized by the loss of ethnic identity matrix, we believe that promoting cultural heritage is possible by learning ethnography and folk art at school because it is meant to teach the respect for every ethnos in general and theirs in particular. Th e following topics are of interest, especially considered in the comparative aspect for diff erent ethnic groups: traditional house, traditional costumes, food, occupations, tools, family celebrations, beliefs. Also the themes of folk medicinal plants, natural colorants, agricultural calendar could be studied during biology classes; village toponymy – in geography, folklore – in literature, popular ornamentation and chromatics, traditional costume – in the fi ne arts, technological education; issues related to holidays, festivals, ethical and aesthetic rituals – at the tutorial. A collective monograph prepared by the pupils can be seen as another good way of protecting the heritage. Each of the pupils could work on a particular theme, make descriptions and pictures of his or her native village contributing essentially to learning and appreciation of national heritage. Launching diff erent projects on the local level could also be helpful, for instance, “Memory in a cookbook”, „Good manners and models of behaviour”, „Setting the table yesterday and today”, „How do we live? Architecture yesterday and today”, „Ornaments of past and present”, etc. On the other hand, a course devoted to ethnography of the peoples would increase general knowledge of the values of a community, ethnic group and give a possibility to make comparisons and combine harmoniously national specifi city with the universal tendencies. Effi cient collaboration of a school, village with ethnographic science, optimization of the level of training and focus on the national values is a necessary imperative. An ethnic group will exist as long as people speak their language, keep traditions, family rites, share the values of national culture, educate next generations in ethnic spirit and respectful attitude towards all ethnicities and their culture.