The right to education in the 20th-century Polish Constitutions

The right to education is one of the most crucial human social rights. The aim of the paper is to present the evolution of the perception of this right in the 20th century Polish Constitutions. The Constitutions and their catalogue of human rights (including the right to education) were decisively influenced by the changes in the 20th century’s political background. The 1921 Constitution, which represented the liberal model of human rights, regulated the right to education to a fairly large extent. Whereas the 1935 Constitution was in line with the concept of building a centralized state and ignored the issue of human rights guarantees, maintaining only a part of the previous Constitution’s provisions. The communist Constitution of 1952 contained quite extensive guarantees regarding the right to education. However, it included