Abstract
My article is a synthetic recognition of macro-Polish governments’
evolution over 25 years of political transformation. It is presented from the
perspective of education for democracy, in a democracy and not about
democracy. I explain, how it is possible, that the Poles after they got rid of
monistic doctrine of the totalitarian state, are subjected to hidden process of
democratization of education and the school system. I analyze public education
,mechanisms and structures for its management in a way that counteracts
democratic change. The school is subjected to a mechanism of political gamemakers.
It becomes an institution which is painfully ineffective and without its
face. This institution devastates traditions and allows intellectual regression.
There are threats to educational reforms which lie not only in the sociopolitical
mechanisms, but also and perhaps primarily within the education system,
which has not created procedures to eliminate Pharisees of innovation from it.
Polish educational system after 25 years of transformation is not only partially
reprivatized but highly bureaucratic and fully involved in political parties.
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