Būsimųjų Lietuvos kariuomenės karo policininkų švietimo organizavimas XX a. 4-ojo deš. antroje pusėje

ENIn the 1920s and 1930s, andragogical activities during general military service training were carried out in the Lithuanian army in order to increase the level of education and culture of soldiers. The educational needs of the army were related to the proper performance of official duties, and the education of an independently and critically thinking soldier, with the motivation to perform his official and civil duties. Organisation of general education and culture was relevant for military policemen trained at the Military Police School by fully fulfilling the requirements for a specific service. Formal education programmes in the school consisted of six disciplines: the Lithuanian language, arithmetic, history, geography, religion and singing. The aim of teaching these subjects was to develop educated personalities capable of reading, writing and counting, i.e. conscious, disciplined, and moral soldiers. The content of the Lithuanian language lessons in the Military Police School was identical to the general content of the army with the aim to provide soldiers with reading and writing skills. Very little attention was paid to the training of arithmetical skills in the school, and the purpose of teaching geography was to provide only general knowledge about the geographical situation of Lithuania. Most of the lessons were about history, the thematic pattern of which was common not only to the requirements of the army, but also to the thematic requirements of mainstream primary schools. Specific psychological training for executing one of the tasks of the military police service – the death penalty – could be provided for future military policemen during religious lessons. Competent soldiers, who were graduates of general education or pedagogical schools, or even of universities, taught these general education subjects to the future military policemen.Sufficient attention and time was devoted to the general education of soldiers in the school; however, the collective results of examinations, the general discipline, and moral norms to become full military policemen were not enough to achieve the highest requirements expected of them.