How will be arrange education under socialism? It's obvious that the current capitalist education system is pretty shit. How will communism enable us to improve upon it?
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Education under Socialism
Evan Miller
Isaac Brown
We won't have schools.
UPHOLE MARXISM-MUKEISM
Kayden Clark
There's no "education"
There are different education systems going on in parallel or in different countries.
For starters communism should ban private education and make a public education system that is oriented to technological development for the benefit of mankind, but also for the formation of man
Luke Williams
It will be abolished. Education is bourgeois
Thomas Bailey
It will be the way it is in Cuba or the DPRK, and was in the USSR.
Landon Nelson
My personal idea is to arrange a wiki-like space where students can write their personal articles on various subjects, link them with articles of other students, and thereby gradually enrich their understanding of things that interest them, simultaneously broadening their critical thinking skills. This system would also enable them to collect educational materials from elsewhere online. Teachers could use the same platform to provide materials for their students, or students could develop materials for one another. This would then create a diversity of points-of-entry for any subject, and give students the freedom to traverse the field of human knowledge however they wish. Thereby everyone would gain a deeply personal understanding of the world, as opposed to the traditional perspectives forced upon students today.
It is my personal conviction that to truly educate someone on something, you have to make the subject an integral part of their reality. This means learning has to come to be at the forefront of the common culture between students. Currently this isn't the case, it often is rather playground politics, capitalist consumption habits, or at best, the struggle to get by in their school, that are the central object of their interests. This may be different in schools for the elites, where the most eager students of the country are collected to create a better scholarly culture for bourgeois children. The aim of communism ought to be to extend this luxury to everyone. What better method to make students teach each other? This ensures they have a vested interest in properly understanding their subjects.
The platform would allow students to communicate with one another and collectively start projects. These could be grand projects spanning the entire country, or small projects such as the reading of a difficult book. Students would be able to pose questions to one another and help each other get a handle on difficult subjects. Teaching someone who is new to something the basics of it is the best possible way to consolidate your personal understanding, yet this principle is largely ignored in our current educational system. (Maybe because it is difficult to control? Because it contains a revolutionary potential?)
Next to that, teaching would be split into two separate professions. One performs a counseling function for students, while the other is the actual conveyor of information. The counselors would be trained in two things: developmental psychology and the tracking of student progress. They'd make sure students feel comfortable at school and at home and are making good progress in their studies. The communicators would focus entirely on the production of freely available educational materials and the answering of student's questions, although both of these activities will also be performed by students themselves. They'd be working fulltime to make video-lectures and online exercises, which will inevitably be superior to the materials teachers presently provide, and to engage with students who wish to understand the subjects they have expertise in. For this reason, they should all be experts in the subject they teach, on the level of university professors, giving the students the best possible guidance learning everything they wish.
I'd also abolish the idea of categorizing students according to grades. The new form of learning has no need for it anymore. The only thing that matters is whether students are making progress. Further, while students will leave educational facilities when they get older, they will always have access to them over the internet, and be able to engage in learning throughout the entirety of their lives. The educational system will be expanded to encompass industry as well, giving students the ability to learn from actual professionals, while also giving those professionals access to the knowledge they need to constantly improve their ability to perform their tasks.
The reason this system would be characteristically communist is both that it depends upon communism and leads into communism. It depends upon communism because it depends on a free flow of information. If educational materials need to be paid for, this system will not work. If companies want to guard their workflow from competitors, students will be unable to access them. Next to that, it leads into communism, because it enables students to communicate and organize according to their interests, and therein perhaps even start arranging economic activity. Eventually the process of economic planning and the process of learning might become indistinguishable from each other, as the whole of society becomes both learner and teacher.
They all operate according to the same principles, as far as I can tell.
Logan Bell
So… no real difference?
Luis Watson
I know this is a much hated answer but right now I'm in a bit of a hurry so I can only tell you to check out what Leon Vygotsky wrote on Education.
It really depends where you are from, people born in Eastern Europe might see some familiarity between his theory on how education should be and how it was implemented in their school systems up till recently.
Look up his basic principals, it differs slightly but importantly from Piaget (Around who's work western education mostly was based on)
Gabriel Thomas
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Kevin Bell
There are substantial differences. The Cuban education system for instance has very low homework, low focus on standard tests, and half the day is spent on arts and recreation. Special attention is given to ensure education for all children, even in remote rural areas. The curriculum of course includes Marxism and people's history. As well, free meals and so on.