V. I. Lenin on the social role of higher education under socialism and modern tasks of higher education
Abstract
More than 100 years ago, K. Marx and F. Engels, for the first time in the history of social thought, revealed the lawful connection between the education and upbringing of the young generation on the one hand and the mode of production and the way of life of the people of a given social system in which this generation grows up on the other. Studying the capitalist mode of production, they showed the class-based, bourgeois essence of upbringing under the capitalist system and established that truly human upbringing, all-round development and education of the younger generation are possible only after the proletariat has won political power. They regarded the education, training and upbringing of the proletariat as a constituent part of the struggle for socialism. “The most advanced workers,” wrote K. Marx, “are fully aware that the future of their class, and consequently of humanity, depends entirely on the upbringing of the rising working generation.”
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