Śliwerski, Bogusław2016-07-272016-07-272016Studia Edukacyjne, 2016, nr 38, s.21-42978-83-232-3013-71233-6688http://hdl.handle.net/10593/14836My article is a succinct overview of macro-Polish governments’ evolution over 25 years of political transformation. It is presented from the perspective of education for democracy, in a democracy and not about democracy. I explain how Poles, after they got rid of the monistic doctrine of the totalitarian state, have become subjected to a covert process of democratization of education and the school system. I analyze public education, mechanisms and structures for its management in a way that counteracts democratic change. The school is subjected to political game-makers. It becomes an institution which is painfully ineffective and without a face. This institution destroys tradition and causes intellectual regression. There are threats to educational reforms which lie not only in the sociopolitical mechanisms, but also and perhaps primarily within the education system, which has not created procedures to eliminate Pharisees of innovation from it. After 25 years of transformation, the Polish educational system is not only partially reprivatized but highly bureaucratic and fully involved in political parties.polinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessdemocracypublic educationeducation in democracyeducation policysimulationchangeeducation reformstotalitarianismauthoritarianismArtykułhttps://doi.org/10.14746/se.2016.38.2