Historia prawa do nauki w polskich konstytucjach

Abstract

The right to learn is currently one of the most important rights pertaining to an individual (within the group of the so-called economic, social and cultural rights). Equally, it is also a necessary condition for the efficient and sustainable development of society. The article presents the history of the right to learn in Polish constitutions from the dogmatic point of view and in relation to the history of Polish education and the challenges it faced in various periods of the 2nd Republic of Poland and People’s Republic of Poland. The subject of this paper also embraces the evolution of the right to learn in the Polish constitutions, which, from being a mere group of social duties of the state for the benefit of an individual, was gradually transformed into a right (a public subjective right) pertaining to every individual. In addition, the paper discusses the impact the constitutional history of the right to learn might have, on developing a final version of this right in the currently binding Constitution.