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"HROD NOE OBRAZOVAN I E"
("PUDIIC Education")
No.2, 1950
ON PUBLIC EDUCATION IN FREE CHINA By L. Dubrovina
The delegation of cultural figures, scientists and artists from the USSR spent 35 days in new, froe China last autumn...
In every town in which the delegation stayed, there were meetings of loading officials of local public education bodios. The directors and teachers of the state and privato schools, the profossors and lecturers of the pedagogic educational institutions' and universitics took part in the moetings. In Tsinan, the educational activists of the whole of ghantung province were present. General reports dealing with the cxperience of public education in the USSR wore delivered at the meetings or replies were given to questions raised by ' the Chinese comrades...
Numerous questions reflected the profound interest of the audience, its warm desire to learn about the experience of the construction of Soviot schools, the reforms mado in the field of culture in the Soviet Union, reficcted the desire to interpret profoundly the paths of the development of Soviet culture, to understand the features of principle of Soviet ideology, to realise the superiority of Soviet culture over 1 bourgeois culture to the limit.
These are the most important questions raised at
the meetings taken in a generalised form:
1.
culture in the USSR.
2.
What are the relations between politics and
What is the role of the Party and Party organisations in the management of education.
3. The system of public education in the USSR, its differences in principle and advantages in comparison with the system of public education in the countrics of capitalism.
4. The philosophical and theoretical
foundations of contemporary Soviet pedagogic science.
5. What are the successes in various fields of the culture and public education in the USSR and the ways by which they wore achieved.
6. Relate the difficulties which had to be overcune in the formerly most backward national republics, and the results. achieved in these republics, particularly in creating their scripts and literature.
7. What are the content and methods of teaching in contemporary Soviet schools.
8. The system of working class education and cultural-political work among adults, the changes in the form of this work in recent years.
9. The experience of the Soviet Union in the liquidation of illiteracy, in making the Soviet country completely
literate.
10.
The social-political legal, and material position of teachers and professors in the Soviet Union.
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