Word: dewitte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report, "Education and Professional Employment in the USSR," will be released to the public in February. Nicholas DeWitt '52, an NSF fellow, used his work on three years of research and on observations of visitors to the Soviet Union...
...DeWitt estimated in the report that Russia is "way above" the United States in training engineering students. The Soviet Union has intensified its program in the last decade, he said, "and we have at the change and will feel it even more in the future...
...DeWitt said yesterday, however, that the Russians have stepped up their technological training at the expense of the liberal arts. The Soviets lack the "cultural wealth of the humanities," he maintained...
...approved specialty. For youngsters permitted to study fulltime beyond the eighth grade, the ten-year school system is being lengthened to eleven years with the bulk of the gain in vocational training (1,454 hours), science and math (a total of 395 more hours). As for humanities, says Expert DeWitt, "the ax will fall." There is little room for humanities in managing an industrial state...
...dispute the quality of Soviet training in such fields. American education is superior, they argue, because it is free of the rote learning, Marxian indoctrination and pressure for applied research that characterizes Soviet schooling. Yet the U.S. is short of engineers, physicians and teachers-and Russia is not. Concludes DeWitt, noting that Russia now spends as much on education as the U.S., though it is less than half as wealthy: "We will have to do much more for the betterment of our own education before it is too late...