The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-09
LABOR AND EDUCATION IN THE SOVIET
UNION

LABOR AND EDUCATION IN THE SOVIET
UNION.
QUESTION.-What is the system of education in the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, who fills the higher
schools and what facilities provided for the work
get the necessary training for admission to the
universities
Schools Exist For ToiIers
ANSWER-I Differences in school conditions under
czarsm and under Soviets:
l. Prior to the revolution the workers and peasants
and their children had very limited facilities of gaining
4 education in the middle and higher schools. There
schools that absolutely closed to them Qy
ceums institutes, and the ke) Now the schools exist
for the toilers.
Q All scholasticsm and metaphysics has been driven
from the schools Instead of theology social science
is being taught in the schools thus cutvating in the
students materiaistic conception of history.
g. Formerly there strictly uniform system of
popular education to render it difficult to the
children of the working classes to gain to the
higher schools. Now the whole educational system has
been adapted to afford the utmost educational
facilities for the toers
L. Formerly universal education was not permitted.
Now universal education constitutes the immediate aim
of the Soviet government.
s. According to the basic laws of the Soviet Const-
tuition, the schools based the following princ-
pies:
(a) Separation of schools from the church
(b Glass privileges in the schools for toilers and
their children.
Accordingly preference of admission to the schools
is given to workers and their children; next to pea
and their children, to intellectual workers and
their children, and
II. Methods of Teaching in the Schools.
The methods of teaching in the Soviet schools as
follows:
Children between the ages of and II pass through
the social education schools of which there
three categores (a) the four year school for chill
dron between the ages of and 1876 b) the seven year
school (for children between the ages of and 49, and
) the nine year school (for children between the ages
of and ~.
Those graduating from the four year elementary
school may continue in the occupationa and technical
school, which trains candidates for positions on the
junior administrative and technical staffs assistant
staton-masters, chiefs of railway depots, etc..
Those graduating from the seven year school may
continue in the technical school which trains candidates
for positions the intermediate technical and admin
srave saffs assistant district traf-
fc managers, etc..
These graduating from the nine year school may
tnue in the superior technical school which trains rail-
way engineers.
For the purpose of training skilled workers in the
various branches, there
(a) The factory apprenticeship schools, and
(b) The short term courses
Along with these there exists also a system of bri-
gade apprenticeship extra-mural form of train
ing skilled workers directly the job under the tuition
Of expert workmen.
Preliminary education covering the seven year cur
rcuum required for admission to the factory appren-
tceship schools, but temporary measure scholars
admitted also with lower standard of prelinl-
mary education and in such the educational de-
ficiency is subsequently to be made good during the
term of tuition in the apprenticeship school