THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1957.
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Now that Moscow has started its campaign against overworking children at school, the East European sotollites are following suit. This cartoon from the East German newspapar, Eulens- plegol, spooke for itsoff.
Russia's Teachers Have A Headache
N the US.S.R. today This way the child's knowledge and his attitude to work could there
are #mo
best be determined, 1,000,000 teachers
Excessive homework, The looking after twenty-eight report went ou, Why usually million children in the threa a result of bad plonalng by the muin grades of schlucher. Sometimes he assigned i hurledly "just before the These numbers are divikerk
bol. or even afterwar.in between 109,000 primar schools, 69,000 seven-year schools and 27,000 high Bchools.
rural In the grade hre arbola, wh
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The ABC
Or The two major problemi mire enquiring younger genera- facing Savjet teachers today, 1.
Russian 1057-58 school year,
Ri lenat are ready, but it will one-that of oy in worked!
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When eria was executed the tren-la being rolved by the publishers of the
But it is not just the history be a hard task to get the rest Great Soviet books which sulfer rom these aut ip Ume. virtual aboiling the Examina Enelopaedia told their sub- elanges of line.
Rodnaya Rech kimo system
Whe- seribers
to be completely rewritteni nu According to to tear out from the the ther this drake #ep
Mmister of Education, Mr a new history of the U.9.S.R. BER pages the Berla Annenko, this
eleven-year-olds gard up bad thing in the long biography ami rubstitute fresh quit" is to be found in almost rushed though. for use in We
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the tory, is erops Soylet
up books on in the monume, advises Mr teachers'
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journais, the Soviet Constitution, in the Afanasuke, "material which Those the hias dared to Biterature readers, the geography releels
the personality cult fear out pages from the school- books, the
Janguage should be avoided. in casey ixoks in this way
books and even in the spelling where such material bas to be book und reader. for
the bed, the pupils must be given primary school.
the necessary explimations.
What materia tove 1 Lo explain!
1055 cation of Trifunov's and Kudryashov's Russian literature render has a three page poem extolling Stalin, Thou, our Teacher, by n White KUASHUK Ya Kupalu; a sevej
the page cpie Thoughts Fatherland
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Lithuanian Salomeya Neris.
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lich still CULITIS a laudatory biography of Stalin, even though his picture hus been removed from the front-pieca.
And so the teacher could go on through the books, tearing one page out here, a handful there. But only metaphorically, nowadays "the 4 complete pupils must be given text-books for Ua: necessary explanations]"
The Ministry of Etucution is
redrafting
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The role of the people" i alt bully the hatorienl achievements of cange the Russian State has been unad pustimated The colonia:
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enough to trang Fordh protesta frum. Stet medical circles a few months ago Tarte pro'ests went so for a in contemn the "unbelievable nyca burdening" of schoolchildren.
They stated that children of between eleven
thirteen and yeats were working an average
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about the civilising the luftuence of the Russian colonists Crossbilities of controlling what in Central Asla and the For one grate to the nexi will be the children are taught The East. To cap everything, there derided on the children's ansund gewer, the book the fewer are
was # gross exaggeration of the #eporis. There are exceptions the chances of "incorrect" think role of Stalin. in the rule. The examinations ing Shee all the books have Tusstan language, mathes to pass the offiemi censor, ther appropriate clutats, are reduced sill further, schools have
for 14-year-aldr tertain requirements have been anged for the final year at kischool,
one subjeel- with
U.S.S.R the busty of the ning oral only. The system ta Just DOW coming into operation. Its long-
is effect
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A
NASSER'S BOYS ABROAD
FIND LIFE IS TOUGH- AND HIS CASH RUNS LOW
A
COLD, cold All this means that, us for
wind as Suvley history writers ure
blows through Egypt's concerned, their future nimple Treasury. The Suez Canal, al "overcoming the cult of per-one of the main sources of sonality" will take them back
revenue, has not yielded to the "pure" Marxist views of
plastre for months, Tour- the Pokrovsky school.
ists are absent. Unemploy ment soars., Yes, Nasser is scraping the bottom of his coffers,
C) long * 17:5 official Ine clogs not change in any
Thirty yeaFU apy, Pokrovsky marked degret, things remola was the lending light among fairly simple for the authorities Marxist historians in Russia, unt Stalin dies This Fortunately for him, he died a what Jins started
death the current naturaj
before Stalin rum of troubly for the Russian could purge him, but his fol- lowers und thei ideas were The rope reupoluils of this p>02- "eliminated" in the bloodbaths Stolin years. huve now spread of the 1930's.
of sight to ten hours a day, sele, ut examinations has been teachers. including time peat in homework.
Most upper
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los the classro57110 Things It was after this tùn Stalli thur could be "explained away" bught up his self-glorißeation us
the Vozid
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to adults with tongue in chook cunnot be fobbed off on to the
dolnak
godt ng mas for years, inside and Poleen to stret les n-year-old.
But ut de Huashe
to the worked another
armaciate couple of bruts on top of this
sense, that! partial ITL
txtition fine
comis as a relier schools, bigh
medin!
teacher pap and
alike authorities mid, had no
fine
Hiusta today, Iefl for reading, sports or anusement, indeed, really industrious pupil working for the covered gold or silver mustals Lan the disk of mental breakdown through lack of
Ti
doctor. failed En achieve anything by their
appeals
Education
the Artistry 41
auct
The
published their Indictment
in
the Literaturaya Gazeta, in the hope that Press publicity would
auceved where their
appeals had failed.
Overload
personal
COME idea of how pupils are overloaded with work may
said:
the
be gained from the report on one subject—geegenphy_in_the geography teachers' paper, Geografiua V Shkole, which give pupils as much knowledge na possible. In reography lessons is valuable in itself, but some a teacher forgets the capacity of the pupils and over- loads them. Since the number of lessons is limited, n large part of the overload falls on the pupils' homework."
age
maps
AS
in the seventh class-four- teen-year-olds - for instance, contour map work
Ix very important. But teachers Wero too tempted to see that got "painted as brightly possible," the puplis "alling in as many things as they can." Thin sort of work, sald report, was Jargely useless, wasted
the child's time and tired lila eyes, Inevitably the children made mistakes and was those mistakes they carried In their memoriest
Instead
the
of mere mechanicni copying. the chlid should be taught to seleci just flie dala he wanted, to show on bila map. In
Jordan
(leader, following
in the footsteps of the great
ARAB NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS
Correspondents cabling from many parts of the world, tell of hard-up Egyptian ambassadors. Juld-up car, cancelled recop- tions.
it is now pos BEIRUT: it is reperiod here, for Nusser to get credit on any terms.
And the few million dollars tossed to him by King Saud during the last six months have long since disappeared, snapped up by first preference creditors.
Even the Communists hove taken Nasser for a ride,
The Eastern btoo bought Egyptian cotton with Egyption
shoddy consumer foods like secretaries at the embassy have
Cun writer
pounds "earned" by selling
shoes, shirts, and tics.
The sent their familica home.
pounds were already al
discount of anything 20 percent.
up
to
Er
a bussy ears are stored 'in_garages,
The
that the
WASHINGTON: Stato Department refused tu com- The collon was immediately
ment sold to
on reports Western Germany for United States might buy the *much needed marks at world golden con and mask of King pricus. Result for the Com Tutankhamen, Egypt's finances Inumists-good, hard currency, are in such bad shape, it is For Germany-good Egyptian reported, that Nasser is nego- cotton,
#lating for the sale,
'For Egypt? Her own worth- less currency back again in her own bunks with a purchasing power of nil,
Egyptian
ROME: are broke.
diplomate Five or
six of them' have had to send their wives and children home because they could not afford to keep them in Italy. An exhibi- flon of Egyptian paintings which was to be held in Stelly next week has been put off because of lack of funds,
BERNE Sweeping cuts aro
forecast In
Egyptian Embassy staff.
the
Np longer, is there the regular stream of invitations from the ambassy for cocktails or dinners.
Un orders
Cairo,
BRUSSELS: from
Naser's Ambassador in Belgiura hom had to cut out entertaining. Some of the counsellors' and
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