Educational security in Poland in the third decade of the 21st century. Selected aspects of the state’s policy towards teachers

The article aims to define the notion of educational security and assessment of a selected aspect of the state policy towards teachers and its importance in ensuring this security in Poland in the third decade of the 21st century. The most important research questions are: How should educational security be defined? What is the difference between educational security and education for security? What policy does the Polish state in the 21st century pursue towards teachers as an element of the education system and ensuring educational security? An analysis was carried out of literature and sources devoted to education for safety, statistical data, reports and other documents concerning, among other things, the remuneration policy of teachers and expenditure on education in Poland in the 21st century. Importantly, academic teachers were not included, which deserves separate research. The main conclusions of the analysis are as follows: 1) educational security is a term different from the concept of education for security and should be treated as one of the types of security according to the objective criterion; 2) low salaries of teachers have a direct impact on the level of educational security; 3) nowadays, the low quality of education is particularly noticeable in terms of the nation’s lack of (low) resistance to propaganda and disinformation.