The Real Source of the Regression: The Absence of the Developed Methodologies, Foremost the Rational Pragmatism in the Educational and Social System in North Macedonia, 1991-2020

Abstract

North Macedonia separated from Yugoslavia but its educational syllabi ever since this time hibernated. The last philosophical tendencies included in the local history of philosophy are the death of communism and anarchism. There are no such terms as pragmatism (the classical 19th century one which was born in USA), nor the progressive positivism (which according to some historians of philosophy replaced it after the WWII), nor there is anything about the renewal of the positivism in a form of rational positivism, which happened in the 90’s. There are neither no traces of all other philosophical tendencies associated with or provoked by the pragmatism, such as the meliorism or the Neo-Platonism. How did this influence the educational system in North Macedonia? The social system influenced the educational one or vice versa? How did this influence the level of democracy in this country? Can EU be a reliable partner in dealing with these issues?