(1) The right to education is ensured by compulsory general education, by secondary and vocational education, by higher education, as well as by other forms of training and improvement.

(2) The State shall ensure, under the law, the right to choose the language of education and training of persons.

(3) The study of the state language shall be carried out in educational institutions of all grades.

(4) State education is free of charge.

(5) Educational institutions, including non-state ones, shall be established and operate under the law.

(6) Higher education institutions enjoy the right to autonomy.

(7) State secondary, vocational and higher education is equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(8) The State shall ensure, under the law, the freedom of religious education. State education is lay.

(9) The priority right to choose the sphere of education of children lies with the parents.