The Self-Education of School Pupils

Abstract

The mandate from society to our school - not just to provide pupils with a definite sum of facts but also to develop their ability to augment their own knowledge independently and to find their bearings in the torrent of scientific and political information (see: Materials of the Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [Materialy XXV sezda KPSS]) - demands that the problem of self-education be posed in the school. This means that even under conditions of universal compulsory secondary education, the school has ceased to be the concluding stage of self-education. Schooling has become the basis, the start, for the continuing and continuous self-education of the individual in socialist society, continuing after graduation from school and later on, in both secondary and higher-education institutions. N. K. Krupskaya continually stressed the importance that self-education holds for comprehensive development of the individual [2].