Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Centering largely on a description of Moscow University, Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, stressed the "driving dedication to science and technology" which makes a Russian scientific education "equal to the best this country has to offer." He gave much lower marks, however, to Soviet instruction in humanities and the social sciences...
...this feature of the school is rather unobtrusive--the students themselves are usually hardly aware of it. Other features of a small school are mare apparent to them. There is a diversity of interests arising naturally from the variety of ages, the wide geographical distribution, and the differing social and financial backgrounds. And this diversity is probably more apparent and more important in a small school or college than in a large one. Terry points out the ease of finding a small clique of people of similar interests at a big school--the ease of finding "a satisfying number...
They then consider the development of primitive cultures, not only in the general terms of the technology and social organization of paleolithic and neolithic cultures, but also by examining a few specific societies, like the Aranda of Australia, the Hopi, the Kazakhs of Central Asia, the Haida Indians off the West Coast of Canada, the Ganda of Uganda and finally the Inca. They consider in a fairly sophisticated manner just what makes a civilization, and how the primitive forms developed...
...with the traditional offering of physics, chemistry, trigonometry, and solid geometry, Southern urban schools are now introducing physiology, advanced mathematics, German, and geology into their programs. The basic requirements in urban schools are similar to their northern counterparts--four years of English, three of math, two of science and social studies--and college-bound students take a great many more than these...
...Natural Sciences excluded themselves from this system early, but it covered almost all the fields in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Basically, it would require graded tutorial in the sophomore year, emphasize more indidvidual work and independent study, and establish more frequent departmental examinations...