The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15


Owing accommodation teachers most Of
one ScH0oS at present are WORKING IN Two S S -
been established for orphans and destitute children who have no
facilities for attending the local school Admission to these board
schools obtained through the Trade Unions local educa
tona departments of the commissariat.
No distinction between the is made in of the
schools universities Boys and girls absolutely equal
footing.
tending school, although this not considered satisfactory
considerable Improvement on sars davs By 1927 it hoped
put iteracy all The total number
dealing exclusively with terates So and the
total number of pupils 100000
School Curriculum
Great attention is paid to modern languages In all schools
French Russian taught, and in English
mathematics geometry, elementary
economy, botany anatomy Under the heading of
elementary anatomy child given
instruction principles personal hygiene
aonhp and the construction of the body This instruction
supplemented lectures by the doctor who attached
each school Once week all the children medically in
spcted and the resident doctor responsible for their health
and cleanliness Is
walls pictures by great the things they
loved most rich food served gold savers of Italian workman
ship resting silk embroidered by Persian slaves
Rembrandt portrait informed the children that great painter
pictures sold for untold died in abec poverty
because the wealthy refused him living wage ....-
The following be taken typical of the instruction
given of twenty children visiting picture gallery The
with very thorough explanation of the
technical and artistic properties of picture Of still life t
gold table covered with embroidered
cloh) the children and asked "Can
any you tell why this picture pained? Nobody
piled For the same reason my comrades you
to have picture of Lenn your ROOM you what
most dear to you wealthy people liked have their
Very considerable is devoted to instruction in all
branches Works of collected under the
naturalization of private property have now been placed the
public museums of all large These daily
filed bands of children under the guidance of aeacher
with it's subjective lesson Communism
and the rights of the been the
residence of wealthy individual as often the case
children first taken around the buildings and shown
luxury which the former owner lived After this intro
ducton the class is taken round the exhibits
all almost entirely confined to social and
political aspects of the world the growth of civ
cation and its effect on the workers OF various countries SOCIAL
reormer their lives and creed have entirely taken the place
the history of kings and dnases The wrongs and oppres
strongly emphasized This fundamental principle pene
trates all branches of the child's education
Universities
The universities divided caegories universities
special higher economics and technical
subjects dealing with all branches of engineering and general
universities which divided into various faculties such as med
law music and statistics In most universities very low Zee
charged Those students who unable to meet the fee are
subsidized the Trade Union to which they or their parents
long, by the party organization
There also in all large industrial centes institutes known
rabfak workers facuties These are Trade Union st-
buttons exclusively industrial workers who have not
ceed school education to enable them pass into
standard which will enable them to enter State
university students receive subsidy from their Trade
Union enables them continue the higher course OF their
studies In they do hadays work in the morn
ing and attend lectures in the afternoon and evening
These rabak" number 75 the largest being the Donez
School, built and equipped entirely by the Trade I'm
Foryve per cent of the students in the higher univer
The full State program includes clothing and food for all
school children and students university Owing to lack of
funds this however has not yet come INTO force mere are on
hand certain Communist institutions Tor sons ana
members Communist Party at which both clothing food
quarters provided These colleges considered to be
Mnns colleges and agricultural colleges have
lished and the same line as the universities
Art a.e,,.
special feature all Russia, and especially in the
rane is the workers colleges colleges Of music These
Commissarat of Education, but