She gave speeches and wrote articles about the importance of training to create mothers who could educate their children and students who would become productive citizens.

In 1868, the Diet of Hungary passed legislation making primary schooling for children compulsory, but refused to sanction secondary education for girls.

After organizing a petition drive to press the legislature on the issue failed, the association opened the first secondary school for women in Hungary, for which Veres became director.

Hermína Karolína Benická was born on 13 December 1815 on her father's estate in Trebeľovce-Láza,[1][2][3][Notes 1] (near what is now Lučenec, Slovakia), in Novohradská County, in the Slovak Region of the Kingdom of Hungary.

[1][2][3] Her father Pavol Benický (also Pál Beniczky)[3][5][Notes 2] was a Protestant landowner from a noble family, who served as the deputy prefect of Novohradská County.

[3] Benická barely knew her father's family as he died when she was one year old[6] and her mother relocated with her sister and daughters, Maria, Hermína, and Lotti to Buda.

[2][3] She also created self-study courses in art, geography, history, literature, and science,[3][5] but because of an eye infection, had difficulty with reading.

[4] She also met Pal Veres (also called Pavle Vereš), the head notary and deputy prefect of Nógrád County.

[3] In October 1869, the Országos Nőképző Egyesület opened a two-year private school for girls over age thirteen, with Veres as director.

[11] It offered four elementary level classes, four intermediary courses, and three superior classes which included religious instruction; French, German, and Hungarian languages; Hungarian literature; aesthetics; pedagogy; anthropology and psychology; logic; history of civilization (above all, as it related to women); mathematics, algebra and geometry; art and drawing; vocal and instrumental music; and gymnastics.

She did succeed in influencing the upper bourgeoisie and aristocracy towards acknowledging the benefits of education in general for children of both sexes[14] and in 1879, she received the Golden Cross of Merit with the Crown.

[11][Notes 4] Mainly through the fundraising activities of Veres, in 1881 the school relocated to larger quarters, which allowed them to offer boarding, at a location on Zöldfa Street in Budapest.

She also compiled her experiences and those of other teachers in a book, Tapasztalati lélektan felnőttek számára (Practical Psychology for Adults), which was published in 1895.