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Yugoslav Directed Education

anecdote · Slovenian/Yugoslav · retold in 3 talks

Recalls the Communist attempt in Yugoslavia to impose 'usmjereno obrazovanje' (directed education) to make everything socially useful, noting the irony that modern Europe is rediscovering this utilitarian ideology.

2009: 1 talk 2021: 2 talks
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As told 3

“we had when the Communists were losing as it were their battle their last desperate attempt was at least to streamline education and they tried to impose something called usmjereno obrazovanje directed education.”
“We don't want people to believe. We want people just to respect the ritual, but not to take the ideology seriously.”
“Those in power when I was young in Yugoslavia were most horrified if you took the official ideology seriously.”

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Recalls the Communist attempt in Yugoslavia to impose 'usmjereno obrazovanje' (directed education) to make everything socially useful, noting the irony that modern Europe is rediscovering this utilitarian ideology., illustrating non-utilitarian useless thinking
A Yugoslav party official admits that the education system's 'success' is that it produces cynicism: people respect the rituals but do not take the ideology seriously, which is exactly what the regime wanted., illustrating Material Existence of Ideology,Cynical Reason
In Yugoslavia nobody took socialist education seriously in high school; this cynical disengagement was exactly what those in power wanted, they were most horrified when anyone took official ideology seriously., illustrating ideology,queerness of ideology