The daily worker., 1933-12-05
By Joseph Freeman

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speech in the newspapers special attention
which described the forward strides OF Soviet public edu
s vas one Of hs passages which humoousy
sgess with President Roosevelt regarding prOpa
although he made references to this country many OF
those who resd his speech could not help making IN 'n 0"
minds 7a3s W..
m cannot Be denied Iityinoff describing
Soviet public education made gigantic strides for
neacy which prevailed before the
able toread and instead OF SooOoO tnee are now az
intermediate schools Iivonof later added that
100000 students Soviet workers faculties technical high
schools ana factory and shop schools
growth from to in the number
teachers students cannot help thinking Of tins
aeabe public education the United States today
ne breakdown of the school system Chicago
as fraction of school teachers still
body soul together the scrip which their
bankrups cities give them for wages
Now report Education which
Chicago and Detroit exceptions The Little Red School
house isdolding up under the Blue Eagle
THIS autumn alone rural
Sixteen institutions Of higher learning have
been cesed since last year, along with some o scnoos ana
parochal schools also closing great numbers
tuitioa basis
resulting the economic crisis and from that
capitalize than police
armies and political graft has compelled one out Of every four cities in
the school term IT'S rural schools
expected than three months during the coming school
Not only the American school shorter than the Soviet
behind capitalist Europe Today the school
country consists of 172 days compared with 200 in France
Germany England 26
s the situation at present but the government that
per per
will their terms by least month Missouri 100 high schools
planned Mexico Virginia Yoks schools
feeling the crisis actey teachers being fired
their pag-cut and held
Apart the disruption organization there have been
in cities
omitted physical education
ton, economies industrial health service.
teachers are unemployed It might have added that those who are
in
introduced scrip
teacher school near New York tells ME that colleagues still on
payroll not drawing the months
by sritkhg up newspapers from garbage cans
against
the capitalist countries.
not socialism killing
Writers and artists create in the Soviet Union bounded
oernapgsz +
today possible thinking woman
regardesof former preudcs to evade drawing
ONE comparison recently Rugg Of
cohfa University Speaking at the woens Conference on current
Pobon October Rugg youth
Soviet pnon energeicay participating
social order millions of and in the United
deprived opportunity faculties
matersstan Professor sooo-
young idle Of use
socaled the anestnetned
protected then plunged into
totally dferenS with Job with
vaes o Of the collapse
significance than this.
disciplined
definite tasks carried purpose
Today 100000 Organization
nekg fine constructive contribution
social order
set to the great building peace"
Riggs comparisons is pity he
did not further 1t only middle up
dead academic world remote from reality
different one The worker has continuous
which he is brought up
But is world Of poverty misery a which
him education until that mighty
such as strike brings him into contact with the revolutionary
ment, and thus with working
MANY bourgeois educators visited with
w admiration Of its school system they
adapted American life But Soviet
capitalism than Soviet transplant the
2 tree wtthout transplanting its
The growth Soviet education
OF that country Only when capitalism
abolished the industry mass
the population healthy culture socialist
develops educational lectures
cultural societies. its
and photo organizations its theatrical and
unions and political organizations teach
the struggle They him which
cnslayes and exploits science which
him the road toward 8