The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18

munist Party Of Russia has over
tional system by the capitalists
hands of the educators and pupi
In Russia, the counter-revol
prior to the Bolshevik revolution
has been made a stronghold
for teaching the right of the
working class to rule.
The Soviet commissar Of education
has rebuilt the entire outlook of the
proletarian students on the basis of
the new society. All scientific works
used during czarist times, which were
similar to books now used in the
American schools, were filed with
propaganda against the working class.
Histories, sociological works, books on
economics and anthropology were
found to be counter revolutionary
propaganda against the working class
and were destroyed.
czarist Education a Fraud.
What Edward A. Ross, professor of
sociology at the University of Wis
consin, says Of the czarist education,
applies word for word to the present
educational system of the United
States as controlled by the capitalists.
Under the car" says Professor
Jones, "a gigantic fraud had been per-
petrated on the children and the COM
mon people by feeding them husks
when they were furnishing for bread.
The trick was to obscure while seem
ing to enlighten, to conserve darkness
while going thru the motions Of ex-
tending education" Professor Ross
has here unwittingly given the true
slogan of American education week."
ut was not enuf that the czar's lin
America the employers and Cool
idge's) servants picked and drilled the
teachers A horde of inspectors lin
America school superintendent and
officers of the national education as
sociation) went about tasting the mi
croscopic doses of truth administered
to the children and testing the teach
ers' loyalty"
Taught to Be Self Reliant.
In America hard work is gIorifed
And in Russia hard work is also glori-
fed. But in Russia, the school chill
dren are taught to work and learn for
the good of the working class as a
whole, which produces all wealth and
controls it for the use of the workers
In America children are taught to
be subservient and obedient to their
masters They are taught to be good
wage slaves who must tolerate the in
dustrial masters. In Russia, the chill
dren, under the guidance of the Soviet
government, are taught to be self re-
liant. The educators and the pupils
run the schools of Russia for the good
of their class
Study in Russia is based on the
child's play and his reiasSon to pro-
ductive work. The Russian children
make trips to the factories and learn
the truth about collective industry,
and how the workers control the state.
Textbooks on sociology and political
economy which tell the children they
must be good servants to their en-
ployers in order to succeed are no
longer in use as they are in America.
The profit system is shown up as a
system Of oppression of the workers
by the capitalists.
SeIf-Government in Schools.
One Of the main functions of the
school is to teach the child collective
action, we learn in Anna Louise
Strong's history of Bolshevik Russia.
THE schools are trying to At the child
to build socialist state" she says
"The schools are the next battle front
for Communism. The school is self
governed school community, in which
children. teachers, ianitors all nave
equal voice. It decides everything.
What shall be done with the school
funds. what shall be planted in the
school garden, what shall be taught.
II the children decide against some
necessary subject, it is the teachers
job to show them, thru their play and
life together, that the subject is
needed"
Self government self help, self man
agement in common activity are part
Of the basic policy OF the Soviet
} schools. The fair friendly division of
labor is considered the corner stone
Of education as citizens OF future
socialist commonwealth.