Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russians, unlike Americans, have a "total commitment" to public education, Herold C. Hunt, Charles Eliot Professor of Education, noted at a dinner meeting of the educational conference last week...
...beyond this point, Hunt declined to draw further comparisons, since the purposes of educational systems in the two countries are so divergent. Committed to molding "willing and unquestioning" servants of a totalitarian state, Soviet schools offer rigidly prescribed courses of study he said, with languages the only elective courses...
...spite of this, however, Hunt cited several worthwhile features of Russian education. Free schooling is offered up to the age of 45, the pupil-teacher ratio is less than 25 to 1, and up to 15 per cent of the national budget is spent on education...
Students, Hunt noted, are highly motivated and the schools place great emphasis on instruction in the languages and sciences...
...analysis of this country's educational needs, Hunt asserted that the importance of learning must be made evident to American school children, as it has to Soviet youths. In this vein, scientific scholarship and leadership must be developed...