Education: Communists' Calendar

A public-school teacher in a Communist country may not have to think very much, but that does not mean that life is any the less exhausting. Last week, in News from Behind the Iron Curtain, a new monthly publication of the National Committee for a Free Europe, an escaped Czech teacher told why. Sample week in his former life:

Monday. "I teach from 8 to 12 ... The afternoon is taken up with a meeting of the Revolutionary Trade Unions Group, which usually lasts till evening."

Tuesday. "I teach from 8 till 2 p.m. At 2 ... there is a meeting of local...

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