To optimize the public education system and to enhance the quality of specialist instruction and training, of the ideological and political, labor-based, moral and esthetic upbringing given to the rising generation and of the manner in which it is prepared for the performance of socially useful work. To guarantee that the measures envisaged by the general education and vocational school reform are taken. From the draft Fundamental Directions of Economic and Social Development in the USSR for 1986-90 and to the year 2000 The challenges of the school reform-to raise the ideological and theoretical level of teaching and the quality of pupil knowledge, and to improve pupil training for labor activity, along with the changes that have been made in the school syllabus, brought into being a need to review the content of general secondary education and refine the goals and tasks of instruction.