First and foremost people should learn the how and why their society functions.
Everyone needs a foundation in real history, not the white-washed, under-budget shit they get now. History from a Marxist perspective.
Everyone needs basic economics. Teach them why socialism works and how it works. Debunk capitalist myths and indoctrination
A class or classes on socialist civics. A course on how to be a citizen of our new socialist society. How to get stuff you need, how the government works, what you can do to help.
A cultural class about social issues like racism, sexism, transphobia, etc. After the first three, this should go down much easier since it will be obvious how these things tie into history and capitalism. And after the civics class of learning to be a good citizen/comrade/neighbor, it should click with more people. I don't think you can fully re-educate all prejudices, but with economic stability and a good education on these matters it should knock it down quite a bit. After a generation or two it should be way less common.
The real question is what do you do with the people who refuse and fight you the whole time? You put them in class with everyone else, they raise a fuss and disrupt classes. You could isolate them and put all the trouble makers in one class together. But then they can gang up on teachers. You could spread them out so there's only one per class, and then use social pressure to silence them or change their mind. I feel like gulag is a little on-the-nose. Work camps is just slavery. I don't know what to do about that.
If this extends to education as a whole, and not just re-education, I have some ideas there too.
The liberal arts idea was to create well-rounded individuals. It also would let people experience things outside of their immediate surroundings and expand their horizons. It's an admirable goal despite how its handled in public schooling and college these days. The internet kinda lets people do that already. The above three tenets cover the boiler-plate philosophy/history/economics/civics everyone needs. So I think we can back off the liberal arts stuff for most people.
The real goal should be having an open curriculum where people choose what they want to learn about, and are free to come and go as they please. If you're 50 years old and want to learn something new, you can. You shouldn't have to enter a full on degree program with dozens of other classes just to learn one thing. The citizenry should be able to engage with it on their terms (outside of the core classes above). The internet should also be useful in this regard. Our country should send some ambassadors on cultural expeditions and record 3D video and/or 3D scans of cultural sites (where allowed). We should make all art and cultural sites within our own country available in VR and 3D video online. Basically let people experience things online when they can't do it first-hand. Hell, publicly fund free video games that let you engage with this stuff. That way people can still be exposed to new things and be well-rounded.
There will still be jobs I assume. Since production is owned by the people, you can create efficiency by using the schools as job-training centers too. This is where you get your specializations and deeper learning about subjects. Most people, for example, will only learn enough math to function. But someone trying to be a scientist will need higher maths. But this isn't limited to jobs like that. Trades will be taught here too. Even service job training and such.
For kids, there should be some standard set of classes, like the core above, but teaching them how to function as a human. Teach them some math. Teach them nutrition. Teach them language(s). Teach them some minor creativity. Teach them to make food. Sort of a liberal-arts lite mixed with life skills.
First and foremost people should learn the how and why their society functions.
Everyone needs a foundation in real history, not the white-washed, under-budget shit they get now. History from a Marxist perspective.
Everyone needs basic economics. Teach them why socialism works and how it works. Debunk capitalist myths and indoctrination
A class or classes on socialist civics. A course on how to be a citizen of our new socialist society. How to get stuff you need, how the government works, what you can do to help.
A cultural class about social issues like racism, sexism, transphobia, etc. After the first three, this should go down much easier since it will be obvious how these things tie into history and capitalism. And after the civics class of learning to be a good citizen/comrade/neighbor, it should click with more people. I don't think you can fully re-educate all prejudices, but with economic stability and a good education on these matters it should knock it down quite a bit. After a generation or two it should be way less common.
The real question is what do you do with the people who refuse and fight you the whole time? You put them in class with everyone else, they raise a fuss and disrupt classes. You could isolate them and put all the trouble makers in one class together. But then they can gang up on teachers. You could spread them out so there's only one per class, and then use social pressure to silence them or change their mind. I feel like gulag is a little on-the-nose. Work camps is just slavery. I don't know what to do about that.
If this extends to education as a whole, and not just re-education, I have some ideas there too.
The liberal arts idea was to create well-rounded individuals. It also would let people experience things outside of their immediate surroundings and expand their horizons. It's an admirable goal despite how its handled in public schooling and college these days. The internet kinda lets people do that already. The above three tenets cover the boiler-plate philosophy/history/economics/civics everyone needs. So I think we can back off the liberal arts stuff for most people.
The real goal should be having an open curriculum where people choose what they want to learn about, and are free to come and go as they please. If you're 50 years old and want to learn something new, you can. You shouldn't have to enter a full on degree program with dozens of other classes just to learn one thing. The citizenry should be able to engage with it on their terms (outside of the core classes above). The internet should also be useful in this regard. Our country should send some ambassadors on cultural expeditions and record 3D video and/or 3D scans of cultural sites (where allowed). We should make all art and cultural sites within our own country available in VR and 3D video online. Basically let people experience things online when they can't do it first-hand. Hell, publicly fund free video games that let you engage with this stuff. That way people can still be exposed to new things and be well-rounded.
There will still be jobs I assume. Since production is owned by the people, you can create efficiency by using the schools as job-training centers too. This is where you get your specializations and deeper learning about subjects. Most people, for example, will only learn enough math to function. But someone trying to be a scientist will need higher maths. But this isn't limited to jobs like that. Trades will be taught here too. Even service job training and such.
For kids, there should be some standard set of classes, like the core above, but teaching them how to function as a human. Teach them some math. Teach them nutrition. Teach them language(s). Teach them some minor creativity. Teach them to make food. Sort of a liberal-arts lite mixed with life skills.