Levels of historical education (common knowledge – reckless commemoration – indoctrination)

The text presents the variability of roles or functions assigned to historical knowledge that every person encounters in the life cycle from early education (family – home – kindergarten) to late adulthood (at the University of the Third Age). The text also indicates the tools for transmitting this knowledge. In this approach, school education is only a stage or form of transmission, but teachers from kindergarten to university and creators/politicians of the so-called historical policy. In such a broad educational perspective, historical self-knowledge and the conscience(s) of entities participating in education play an important role. The text is a message made from a Polish perspective, but with universal, supranational or supra-local features.