in Esperanto
Chapter 6: SKETCH OF COMMUNIST SOCIETY -- EDUCATION
3.1. Universities – strongholds of the intellectual class system
Universities, which stand at the top of the higher education system in each country, are the strongholds of the intellectual class system that rise above the foundation of the knowledge capital system. Under capitalism, the university has become a stronghold of the intellectual class system because today a college degree is required for virtually all of the high-paying jobs that capitalist society offers.
Today, the executives of capital companies are selected from among the senior workers who are candidates for management executive positions, rather than the hereditary succession of the founding family. Most of the certification qualifications for these senior workers are also college graduates or higher graduate school completions.
In addition, in countries where there is a hierarchy between universities, obtaining a diploma from a higher-ranking university guarantees the path to becoming a top-class capital company executive. As a result, both parents and children are frantically competing to become a "first-class university."
At present, the most developed system of memory-reactive education toward the goal of a university is in Asian countries, where the university system was imported from Western Europe, rather than in Western Europe, where the university system originated.
There, the test system for testing memory and reactivity dominates, with the university entrance exam at the top. Passing the university entrance examination is the first big goal in the first half of life. If that is not achieved, unless you are very lucky, you must be prepared to end up as a general worker for the rest of your life. And children of the general working class, whose families do not have enough investment in education, have no choice but to make up their minds at an early stage in their lives.
However, there are probably countries in the world where the intellectual class system based on educational background is not so clearly adhered to. Still, as long as universities are strongholds of the intellectual class system, this is not an essential difference. Universities are therefore prime targets for the communist educational revolution. Communism abolishes the university system.
3.2. Becoming an academic research center
If you hear about the abolishment of the university system, you may be wary of the return of the Khmer Rouge, which plots to kill intellectuals. But never. The abolishment of universities does not mean sending university professors to internment camps, but simply transforming universities into "academic research centers" (hereafter referred to simply as "research centers") as collections of research institutes.
Although the current university has the character of a research institution, its basic character is that of an educational institution. Because of this dual nature, some people lament the excessive burden on university teachers and the lack of research time. Converting universities into research centers will change this situation and provide an environment in which researchers can concentrate on their original research activities. In this case, far from being sent to a concentration camp, would it not be sent to paradise?
At the same time, it will also change the current situation in which universities are being subordinated to capital in the name of "industry-academia collaboration," and will enable more equal and mutual "academic-industry association." For example, new fields of study such as environmental engineering that supports the development of advanced environmental technology, communist management that examines the management methods of new communist production organizations, and labor human science that reflects on the state of labor after the abolition of the wage labor system. In the field, cooperation between research centers and production sites is expected.
In addition, the basic science research field and the humanities field such as philosophy and literature, which tend to be weeded out due to capitalist industry-academia collaboration and the government's selection of research subsidies, may be revived by turning them into research centers at universities. Will. On the other hand, turning a university into a research center will encourage the holding of academic lectures and symposiums for the general public, expanding the scope for contributing to the general dissemination of science.
Universities, including private universities, will be turned into research centers all at once, and the former national and public universities will maintain their public character as socially owned corporation-type research centers.
Along with this, each research center will be responsible for training researchers, which was previously handled by universities and graduate schools. In other words, each research center recruits and employs trainees according to its own methods and conditions, and trains researchers through its own training process. This trainee selection is different from conventional admissions such as university entrance exams, and is a kind of "employment" for research applicants, and is a selection system purely specialized for researcher training.
Universities (faculties) or graduate courses that have been responsible for training highly skilled professionals, such as medicine, law, and education, are researched as "advanced professional schools" such as medical schools, law schools, and education schools, respectively. By making it independent from the center, more practical professional training can be expected.
