Schoolchildren's Self-education

Abstract

The social demands that our society is making on our schools have posed the problem of self-education in secondary school. This means that we must not only transmit a sum total of knowledge to pupils but also cultivate in them the ability to replenish their knowledge independently, and independently to make their way in the rapid flow of scientific and political information (see: [Proceedings of the XXV session of the Communist Party Central Committee]). This means that even under conditions of universal mandatory secondary education, the school ceases to be the final stage of self-education, and becomes the foundation, or starting point, for constant, ongoing self-education, an education that continues after completion of elementary school and even after completion of secondary or higher education.