The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

ClOA O1 JLle student DOQy ana the ann
of the entire educational system that
distinguishes the proietarian land
from even the most advanced CAPT.
taliSt countries. Most Of the students
in old Russia and in present day cap
italist countries belong to the bour-
geoisie; nearly all the students of the
Soviet Union are workers or men,
beers of collective farms.
Science and education in the cap
italist countries are developed to
strengthen capitalist exploitation and
to perpetuate the capitalist system;
the great masses Of the population
are given only as mattering Of edu-
cation, only as much as would enable
them to be efficient factory hands,
farm hands or white collar slaves. In
the Soviet Union science and educa-
ton are developed for the purpose Of
making the workers and collective
farmers equipped for the building of
Socialism, for the completion of a
classics society.
The Soviet schools, the Soviet scien-
tific institutions train the toiling
masses in the spirit of struggle for
the common ownership Of the means
of production, for comradely solid
arity and mutual aid in common
work for the interests Of all the
toilers organized in the proletarian
state. The Soviet school wipes out
that line of demarcation that is
drawn in bourgeois countries be-
tween mental and physical labor, be-
tween theory and practice. The
Soviet school develops new type Of
man, thoroughly equipped with the
ory but also capable of applying this
theory to practical work in the
building Of his socialist land. The
Soviet school fosters Socialist COM
petition and develops the initiative
of the broadcast masses.
THE Soviet School is not confined to
L children. 1t has not only put
7,o000o0 children in the pre-school
institutions and given a seat in a
school to every child Of school age,
but it Is engaged in spreading edu-
cation and culture among scores of
millions Of adults. Nearly 60,000,0 900
Of the population of the Soviet Union
are studying in one way or another.
Technical courses for adult workers,
technical courses for collective farm
ers, study circles in workers clubs,
circles for the liquidation Of litter
acy, training courses for all kinds of
occupations, art circles, athletic
groups, workers tourist groups-the
country is covered with a thick net
work of such institutions. In Czarist
times TO per cent Of the population
was illiterate; as late as in 1928-29,
Al per cent of the population of the
US.S.R. was illiterate. Today, with
the completion Of the first Five-Year
Plan, illiteracy has nearly been wiped
cut, not only in the highly developed
centers but also in the outlying dis
tricts where the local culture of
minority nationalities is being rap
idly developed. In 1880 there were
published in the U.S.SR. 1871 ,000, 600
books and magazines and 6,775 news
papers with an annual output of
$500 100000 copies.
In 1925 Comrade Stain said: 1.-THE
introduction of universal compulsory
elementary education throughout the
country, throughout the Union, will
be the greatest reform. It's fulfillment
will be the greatest victory not only
on the cultural but also on the po-
litical and economic fronts. This
reform should serve as the basis for
a tremendous rise Of our country"
This task has now been fulfilled.
The greatest reform has been carried
cut With the completion Of the first
Five Year Plan and the first year
Of the second Five-Year Plan the
country has been placed on an edu-
cational and cultural basis which will
facilitate its further growth
The Soviet Union is the only coun-
try where education, culture, science
and art are developed for the masses
and by the masses in the interests
Of a better life under a Socialist
system.