Education under Late-Socialism and Communism

[ExUnoDisceOmnes]

In later forms of socialism and even into communism, when people are supposed to be able to act according to their own volition, will education be mandatory?

[Catmatic Leftist]

I suppose that if a person truly didn't care for an education, they would be permitted to opt out or something like that. However, the way the current education system is set up is to discourage critical thinking and transform people into obedient tools of the bourgeoisie, which turns people off. Under communism, education would be more enjoyable because they would be learning something out of interest rather than for wealth.

[ExUnoDisceOmnes]

I suppose that if a person truly didn't care for an education, they would be permitted to opt out or something like that. However, the way the current education system is set up to discourage critical thinking and transform people into obedient tools of the bourgeoisie, which turns people off. Under communism, education would be more enjoyable because they would be learning something out of interest rather than for wealth.
Yeah, when thinking about the issue, I've come to the conclusion that proper individual education is very important to an effective workers democracy. However, forcing it would directly contradict with some of our other essential ideas... hmmm

[gestalt]

It should and will be entirely voluntary. Compulsory education as it exists today simply reinforces the status quo and, even after the revolution, centralized systems limit autonomy. The same possibility for stagnation exists under bureaucratic-socialism, where the benefits of, say, universal literacy must be weighed against the possibility of indoctrination or complacency.

Theoretically the school, if it exists as a formal institution, will be turned on its head and, as a result, most of the present antipathy and antagonism towards education should disappear. Individuals would actually want to attend them. Ideally they would be small, informal, employ individual methods and be controlled by the community. Rather than a set period of time, the school will serve as a life-long resource based on free inquiry and mutual instruction without hierarchical distinctions such as pupil and instructor. Individuals would learn basic skills, specialize in a subject, acquire a trade, as well as focus on independent study. Above all education should foster a sense of autonomy and instill the techniques necessary to attain such an existence.

[Pretty Flaco]

These types of topics seem very pointless to me. How are we to know the exact conditions of a socialist society and how it affects people if no such conditions have ever existed?

[Savage]

These types of topics seem very pointless to me. How are we to know the exact conditions of a socialist society and how it affects people if no such conditions have ever existed?
That doesn't mean we can't theorize and discuss.