The importance of general primary school education is reflected in the fact that it is necessary to every person regardless of what they do and what their main occupation is. A wide range of knowledge which is obtained by general education enables man to follow social changes influence them, change their course and adjust to them, and therefore live well in a certain social community. The research conducted in the schools of the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica was aimed at analyzing opinion of Serbian language teachers on important matters of general education in the primary school (presence of the content of general education in the curriculum, its compliance with the development of science and technology, the impact on the selection of students’ profession, compliance with the evolving capacities of the students and the importance for modern education).