Abstract
This chapter reviews the education of teachers. The need for teachers in the Soviet educational system is determined ten years in advance. Between 1968 and the 1978 All-Union Congresses of Teachers, 2.3 million teachers were trained. Soviet teachers, by virtue of their higher education and training, belong to the intelligentsia stratum, and they enjoy, according to Soviet educators, the greatest respect of society. Rural areas experience such a chronic shortage of teachers that between 60% and 80% of new graduates are posted to rural schools. Some teachers never arrive at the schools to which they have been appointed. They manage to find employment elsewhere, often close to home. Apart from the moral and political roles of the teacher, the teacher is also asked to improve vocational orientation and work training in the Soviet school. The propagandist role of the teacher is clearly spelled out by the decree on the 50th anniversary of the Komsomol and the tasks relating to the communist indoctrination of youth, which stated that the main function of teacher colleges is the training of the young teacher who is ready to fulfill a propagandist mission in the school and society.
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