ABSTRACT
Every educational theory implies, whether it recognizes it or not, some concept of what human beings are and what they can become. That this is also true of Marx can be seen in the passage of Capital in which he speaks of a future system of education as ‘the only method of producing fully developed human beings’ (Marx and Engels, 1975-, vol.35, p.486. Hereafter, references to this edition are given in the form CW35:486. A few minor alterations have been made to these translations). This expression suggests that Marx has some particular idea of what it means to be a human being, and of what the full development of a human being would consist in; and that his philosophy of education, if it is not simply based on this model, at least must refer to it. This is not to say that he ever spells out his model in detail. We have to come to our own view of it by looking into various aspects of his theories, not just about education, or even about human nature, but about other things as well.
