Cuba 2019 Constitution

Title III. Principles of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Policy

Article 32

The State orients, fosters, and promotes education, the sciences, and culture in all of their forms.

In its educational, scientific, and cultural policy, the State abides by the following tenets:

1. It is based on the advances in science, creation, technology, innovation, thought, and the progressive Cuban and universal pedagogical traditions;
2. Teaching is a function of the State; it is secular, and based on the contributions of science and on the principles and values of our society;
3. Education promotes knowledge of the nation’s history and develops a high level of ethical, moral, civic, and patriotic values;
4. It promotes the participation of citizens in the realization of their political, educational, scientific, and cultural policy;
5. It orients, fosters, and promotes physical culture, recreation, and sports in all of their forms as a means of education and a means to contribute to the holistic development of citizens;
6. Creative and investigative activity in science is free. Scientific and technical research with a focus on development and innovation is encouraged, prioritizing that which is oriented towards solving problems of social concern and that benefit the population;
7. It fosters the education and employment of people required for the development of the country in order to ensure scientific, technological, and innovative capacities;
8. Freedom of artistic creation is promoted in all of its expressions, in accordance with the humanist principles upon which the State’s cultural policy and the values of socialist society are based;
9. It fosters and develops artistic and literary education, the vocation of creation, the cultivation of art, and the capacity to appreciate it;
10. It defends the Cuban identity and culture, and safeguards the artistic, patrimonial, and historic wealth of the nation, and
11. It protects national monuments and locations that are noted for their natural beauty or their recognized artistic or historical value.