“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 natural connection between the education and upbringing of the young generation with the mode of production and the way of life of the people of the social system in which this generation grows up. Studying the capitalist mode of production, they showed the class, bourgeois essence of education under the capitalist system and established that truly human upbringing, comprehensive development and education of the younger generation is possible only after the proletariat has won political power. They regarded the education, training and upbringing of the proletariat as an integral part of the struggle for socialism. “... .The most advanced workers, - wrote. K. Marx, - are quite aware that the future of their class, and, consequently, of humanity, depends entirely on the education of the rising working generation“.