The Twenty-Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1976 noted the need for further serious improvement in the entire system of general education, especially in the secondary school. It is no easy matter to resolve the problem of the universal compulsory secondary education of youth. In completing this task, special importance attaches to improving the training of teachers, who are called upon to solve creatively various problems in the communist education of the new [Soviet] man. Today's Soviet teacher must know the basic principles of pedagogical theory, which is continuously developing under the conditions of scientific-technological and social progress, as well as how to apply these theoretical principles in practice, thus creating new and valuable experience in teaching and upbringing. The most important of these principles is the attainment of an integrated approach toward defining the role of education; that is, a close unity of ideological-political, labor, and moral education; the formation of an activist stance in life among the Soviet people, and the development in them of a patriotic and internationalist consciousness and a communist ideology, which is an amalgam of knowledge, conviction, and practical activity. The Soviet school works to resolve these challenges with due regard for actual possibilities and prospects.