On Certain Lines of Development of Pedagogical Science

Abstract

The further advance of culture and technology in our country is inseparably linked with the development of general secondary and specialized education. The resolution of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the Report of the Central Committee states: During this five-year-plan period the transition to universal secondary education for young people is to be basically completed. The quality and content of general, labor, and polytechnical instruction must meet modern requirements. The schools are called upon to instill in the children the principles of communist morality and to improve the esthetic and physical education of the rising generation. The level of pedagogical science must be raised. The urgent necessity of singling out the most important lines of development of pedagogical science, which is occupied with working out problems of communist upbringing, is completely obvious. This is a responsible and complex task and it can only be accomplished collectively. In determin...