Andre Wright wrote for "The Stranger", " starts strong, with an ingratiatingly anarchic vibe, but quickly devolves into a dust-dry, hectoring socialist lecture: a cinematic version of Kenner's My First Revolution playset." Jonathan Romney of "The Independent" said that Weingartner "presents his indictment of the System in crudely stacked terms that make "The Edukators" very much a teen movie rather than a plausible political statement." In "The Times", Wendy Ide wrote: "What could have been an effective piece of drama, a dialogue to cause both sides to question the very foundations of their belief systems, is just a two-hour rant from a wispy bearded idealist whose idea of brotherhood is to sleep with his best friend's girlfriend."