Word: storr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet instruction is based on the three elements, nature study, labor activity, and sociology," said Dr. Lloyd Storr-Best in his talk on Education in Soviet Russia at the Phillips Brooks House last night. Dr. Storr-Best, who has been carrying on investigations in Russia for the British Government, went on to say, "Russian children are taught agriculture and the phenomena of every day natural life in addition to the problems of labor and of their own social relations...
...British government sent him as Special Commissioner to Moscow in order to make a study of educational conditions in the Soviet schools and institutes of higher learning During the next year Dr. Storr-Best was the representative of the British Ministry of Education at the International Congress for Higher Education at Belgrade...
...Storr-Best is thoroughly acquainted with the Bolshevist educational system as it works out at present, as well as with the old Russian system which flourished under the Czarist regime. In addition to having lived many years in Russia, Dr. Storr-Best has recently taken extended trips through Czechoslovakia, Ingoslavia, Roumania, and Bulgaria for the British Board of Education with the purpose of making a detailed investigation of all types of education in these countries...
...Storr-Best is a man of wide education. A graduate of the University of London, he has studied at Cambridge, Rome, Florence, for a short time at the University of Moscow, and for three years at the Sorbonne...
...Storr-Best has also collated classical manuscripts in the British Museum Bibliotheque Nationale, and the Library of the University of Bonn, was formerly a Member of Council of the Classical Association and is now the President of this society...