In this master thesis you can find a clear definition of civic education, how it all begun and its development parallel with democracy through history. The simplest definition of civic education: it is a way of building a universal culture of human rights. Civic education as we know it today promotes democracy, equality of all people no matter their religion, skin color or nationality, environment-friendly behavior and teaches us the freedom of speech and how to express our and accept other ways of thinking. Civic education also gives us the explanation of the main human rights. In the school system of Social Federal State of Yugoslavia civic education was manifested as a form of marxism. In this master thesis one can read how the communistic ideology was incorporated into the education system and how civic education in that period of time was obligated for all students. It promoted titoism, communism, working classes, brotherhood and equality of all nations, equality of women and men, human rights and other. In this research a horizontal comparison method was used. The comparison was made inside of the three post-communistic countries Republic of Croatia, Republic of Slovenia and Republic of Serbia and their current school systems in the area of civic education. Even though all of them received their independence around the same time, their school systems were not developing at the same speed. This comparison consists of the following criteria: entering of civic education into the school system, realization of civic education and goals of civic education, the education of the teachers and how the pupils were graded during the class. “How to educate” democratic and active citizens is a special chapter of the master thesis where one can see how society, family, community, teachers and school influence the future generation.