Proud of their tractors and power plants, Russians are even more proud of their schools. Their claims are that illiteracy has all but vanished; that there is education for everyone, from three-year-olds up to the oldest peasants; that Soviet educators have pioneered in developing group project work; that education is grounded on machines.
Last week President Frederick Trubee Davison of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History opened his institution to the first big U. S. exhibition of Soviet education, sponsored by the American Russian Institute. Most newsworthy exhibit was not the school...
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