MEET COMRADE STUDENT

[Music] be impressed you may be profoundly Disturbed but it is what we found conscious of the Communist challenge we transmit this image to you as objectively and as responsibly as we can make your own judgments before the hour is ended we will contribute ours beat comrade student in Moscow Yuri fukin a prent Soviet broadcaster in our country a boy or a girl can fail in school and still go on later to become a leader in our society would you say that this is possible in yours I wouldn't say that poor pupil going to be well the leaders of our state no that requires the drum beat of Soviet education is competition there are quarters for the top jobs Vin serich davlat typifies the hands of the controls he believes that you cannot teach children who are allowed to do as they please he believes healthy strong bodies require discipline competition is the Paradox of this collectivist Society only the best students can qualify for higher education the March through the schools is serious business in school class competes against class in the world communism against capitalism it is the vital Eternal rhythm of dialectical materialism thesis antithesis synthesis education in the Soviet Union is [Music] [Music] that [Music] match but the race can have its personal warmth this former officer of the Soviet Air Force knows that he's training not soldiers but children in one of the newer and better apartment buildings of Moscow the ganian family starts the day mother as usual as in the kitchen the brothers ganin move at a Brisk clip to get to school on time alosa is 15 Nikita is 13 breakfast at Nikita's request was his favorite omelette and sausages Nikita is in the sixth grade and alosa is in the ninth mother checks to see if they've done all their homework then the double check by father a professional photographer at the foreign Publishing House 5 years ago this District was a field now the predominant sound is trucks and cranes mile after mile of apartment buildings are rising students walk a short mile of startling contrast the old coming down and the new going up school number six combines grades 1 through 11 in one building the Russians say that this is neither the best nor the worst school just average the parents of these children are said to be a cross-section of moscow's population journalists scientists office workers street sweepers like all Moscow schools this one is attached to two industries a publishing house and a nearby metal plant does Ivan run because he will be given a bad Mark for being tardy or does he run because he's eager to be in school in the Soviet children go to school 6 days a week classes generally begin at 9: and last until 3: Hall behavior is quiet and orderly the Overture to learning is obedience the average class size is 30 the children seem accustomed to doing the same thing at the same time at the teacher's commands mathematics and Sciences dominate the curriculum is devoted to impressing the Primacy of matter Sciences come early biology Anatomy and zoology are combined in the sixth grade the Soviets feel that sharing of equipment strengthens the collective Spirit by the 10th grade these children will know Darwin's theory of evolution drawing is required once a week children are taught to draw photographic reproductions of the physical world around them this teaches them the correct Marxist approach to material reality sometimes Nikita illustrat stories he reads in class Russian Art has always been generally realistic but socialist realism is something more it must be typical and politically useful Leon Sturman the assistant principal also teaches English to first of all I'll ask you to listen to the tape recorder ready let's start all Soviet schools teach a foreign language School six begins teaching English in the first grade these sixth graders have a vocabulary of 1,000 words they recite summaries of stories by English and American Authors for example White Fang by Jack London the story is about White Fang he is a wolf he is half a wolf and half a dog when Scott was going to leave the North White Fang this time knew it he never come into the house came into the house but he knew what they were think thinking and doing listen to that will you said Matt one evening at saer we s listened through the door came a low wine then came a long snake well so peoples let's begin our lesson who is on duty today I so peoples asking questions asking questions please for what day is it today today is Friday what is the red life today today is a bad day well why do you think that the day is bad because the sun is not in the sky well all right thank you San pleas don't open your books please don't open your books my first question is who is the author of The Tail question who is the author of The Tail the selfish giant well I don't remember you don't remember oh there a all right children now we are going to have our competition for the best recit the English teachers happy children the happy children strong and full of fun look at our Ben in the bright bright sun we are soet children High our flags we race thank you Soviet country for our happy day little je on set in the corner in ing a Christmas spie he put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said what a good boy am I thank a little hot without your tongue you cannot talk without your feet you cannot walk without your eyes you cannot see without your heart you cannot be it always beeps and hops it never sleeps or stops life long we don't part with our little heart very ni aing aing a t ring hello hello who are you I'm the rhinoceros please run across to us our hippopotamus telling a bog the bog is bottomless poor hippopotamus poor old people he will die if you don't put on your coat and fly all right all right it is late at night and though I must rest I promise I shall do my best with the help of the rhinal a bird and a dog I pulled foror he out of the bo on the floor ni tiny TDY half is gone already ready he's Ted Tor and lame yet I love him just the same if all the Seas the one see what a great sea that would be and if all the Tre well one tree what a great tree that would be and if F thees the one egg what a great EG that would be and the man the one man what a great man that would be and this the great man took the great eggs and cut down the Great three what a s spash that would be and then a touch of political indoctrination a song of the American depression now we'll sing a song about an American unemployed do you know the words all of you fine fine let's [Music] begin Dr lady Dr [Music] I now [Music] traditionally recess is a 20-minute walk around the hall many of the children continue to study even then they remember crush's warning that only those who study hard can expect the privilege of a high school education Nikita garanin takes no examination until the e8th grade the result of that exam will decide his whole future if he fails he will have to go to work or to a trade school a loer is already in the ninth grade but if he is to enter the university he must pass yet another exam and only 15% of his class will make it he tells of his ninth grade grade schedule I start at school the following subjects mathematics in Mathematics Algebra geometry and geometry trigonometry yes literature English Western literature physics chemistry what else technical drawing and history and geography of the USSR and many others Den Sila teaches physics she's a graduate of the Leningrad Institute for teachers regardless of age teachers are respected by so students in his trigonometry class aloa Works a complicated cosign problem he wants to be a microbiologist to do this he must be in that 15% that are admitted to the university and a Loa must excel in math and the Sciences Ola poova demonstrates how to find the trigonometric functions of a circle the girls have an illustrious predecessor on the wall Sophia kesaya born 1850 a noted Russian mathematician she hangs in the company of Archimedes and uid and an exhortation by kenin a famous Soviet educator mathematics is the gymnastic of the mind it trains one in logical thinking still Russian Educators admit that they're having many problems in teaching math to many boys and girls aloa solved his problem impressively political indoctrination continues in all grades here is a seventh grade English textbook not from school 6 dated 1957 not all children in capitalist countries can go to school many parents are too poor to send their children there often children do not like school because in some countries teachers still beat the children sometime teachers hate their work and hate the children whom they must teach the students also learn about Lenin in the days of the revolution in those days some sovet artist were asked to work out uh to work out a design of the state emblem of the land of the socialism the design was shown to Vladimir H Len he looked at it carefully and said while the sword the sword is an emblem of War but we stand for peace among all the people in the world the sword cannot be our emblem with these words Len took a pencil and crossed the sword out that's so Mari roik is the principal of school 6 she's Ukrainian born she's married the mother of two children she was trained as a philologist at the University of leval she's very interested in American educational practices though she calls them chaotic do communist Educators give their children IQ tests ases done in the United States why not we don't do it why not and there is no just any need for if the children is healthy he's just normal normal he is not abnormal he's just a kid as it should be an average one then can get as much learning as the other do you have what we call ability grouping in your schools where the classes are divided into groups of fast and there is no need for that how does a teacher personally feel if a pupil has to repeat a grade she think that such a teacher should heal himself as a person who has not carried out his [Music] U duty if the pupil is quite normal then the teacher is guilty in going through your classes we have observed what seems to be a nice balance of discipline and a good relationship of respect between teachers and pupils how do you feel about the question of discipline we have some rules that the pupils have to uh observe very strictly now for example when they come to school it's necessary for them to brush their feet uh on a mat uh then if they see a newspaper dropped they have to lift it if they see a teacher or some other stranger coming to school but uh who is older than they are of course they should greet them you know we are trying to teach our that their behavior at school out of school in a train in a bus or somewhere else would it Pleasant to others and in this a very great part is being done by the example of the teacher herself when your children reached the ages of 13 and 14 and they become interested in each other as boys and girls do you find that this distracts from their learning and how do you handle the situation what do you mean oh I see sometimes it comes that a boy and the girl may have some uh deeper relation between themselves but the teacher in such a cases he says that a girl if she's a little bit behind the boy that she should make up with the boy to just uh be in one line with him and so this this act and well and as a rule such situations have a good te on the side of the teacher this is one of your new teaching methods well well it's just human attitude towards the young Soul the attitude of these young souls to the scho school's athletic champion seemed quite human and quite Universal as universal as the romance in an adolescent heart number 116 byak let me not to the marriage of two man had me in fed love is not love which alters when aeration find or bend with a remov move oh no it is a never fixed Mark that looks on tamper and is never shaken it is a star to every wondering Bo for rest is unknown also his height beaken love Alters not with his bra hours and we but B it out even to the age of Doom if this the eror and the PED I never e no no man ever loved