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Educators Report Russian Schools Stifle Creativity
The Soviet Union is limiting intellectual and educational growth by stifling individual creativity.
This is the conclusion made in a 15,000 word report by seven American University educators who inspected Russian higher education facilities this summer.
In sacrificing broad intellectual development for intensive training, the short-run efficiency of Soviet education may prove to be a long-run handicap in the Communist struggle for world domination, the report states.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy was in the delegation of educators who published the report.
product, which they regard as "less intellectually self-reliant, less competent in critical analysis, and probably on the average less intellectually creative than that which an institutionally dynamic and individually creative society requires in the long run."
The weakness of Russian education, the educators reported, is its
The most significant aspect of higher education in the Soviet Union, the report stated, is the prestige it enjoys and the support it can command.
The prestige of education in Russia can be measured, the American educators reported, by the firstrank importance it is given by industrialist and bureaucrat alike, by the fact that attendance at a university or technical institute is a prized opportunity, and by the high prestige enjoyed by faculty members.
regard as completely unacceptable the basic premise of Soviet education, which regards education as "an instrumentality for the training of persons who will serve the defined objectives of the State."
Other disadvantages of Soviet education reported by the educators are:
A prescribed curricula, set for all institutions by the Ministry of Education, results in reducing the individual professor to the role "of faithfully inculcating prescribed materials."
There are serious gaps in subject matter, with little or no place given to such subjects as economics, psychology, sociology and anthropology.
Curtailment of student development by the rigid curriculum discourages flexibility, critical analysis, and intellectual creativity.
KU Gets $245,000 For Math Institute
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy has announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a grant of $245,000 to KU for support of an academic year Institute for High School Teachers of Mathematics in 1959-60.
Dr. G. Baley Price, professor and chairman of the mathematics department, will direct the institute, which is one of seven in the nation.
The grant will provide $3,000 each to approximately 50 high school teachers of mathematics. Allowances for dependents and travel will also be provided.
"The National Science Foundation has supported summer institutes at
KU for high school and college teachers of mathematics the past two years," Dr. Murphy said. "We consider the addition of Kansas to the program of academic year institutes as a tribute to the successful manner in which Dr. Price and his colleagues conducted the two summer programs."
Dr. Price is in Washington, D.C., this week attending a meeting of directors of the NSF sponsored institutes.
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TOMORROW
The Kansas Society of Archaeological Institute of America, 7:30 p.m. Prof. Jotham Johnson of New York University will deliver an art lecture on 'The Ancient Work From a Bird' in Air English Room of Kansas Union. All students and faculty are invited.
American Institute of Architects, 7:30
p.m. Marvin. Field trip selection.
Slide show.
Business Placement Bureau company
interested in Franchise marketing
all day
Carbon Cycling marketing
Museum of Art record concert, moon and
sunrise Symphony No. 94 in G Major, "Surprise"
Engineering and architectural interdepartmental colloquium, 4:00 p.m. in the Petroleum petroleum engineer "Underground Combustion as a Method of Oil Recovery."
El Atenco se reune a las 4 de la tarde
Fraser, El senor Prof. Dwight Burnham
de la facultad de Bellas Artes hablara
Mexicana. Enpensa vistas en色
mexicana. Enpensa vistas en色
Political Emphasis Week, 4:00 p.m. Discussion of Constitutional amendments: Music and Browsing Room of Kansas Union.
Russkiil Klub. V sredu 29-go Oktiabria
Russkii stol v dome "Kansas Union"
Priglashaem vsekh govorlichikh po-ruskli
United Presbyterian Center, Bible study, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., 1221 Oread. Understanding the Old Testament. Dr. Alan J. Pickering, leader.
THURSDAY
Business Placement Bureau company interview. E. E. Ellis, Haskins & compiling
Newman Club Mass, 6.30 a.m., at St John's Church, 11th & Kentucky.
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Episcopal Morning Prayer, 6:45 and
following. Canterbury House.
Baptist Student Union, 3:30 p.m. Dana
will attend Bible study this week will
conduct Bible study this week
Poetry Hour, 4:00 p.m. in Music Room of
Encl. Dept., reading a verse play.
Encl. Dept., reading a verse play.
Freshman Pep Club, 5:00 p.m. in the K-State game, including choose a name, selling tickets to K-State game, and discussing plans for homecoming. Attendance will be checked.
Christian Science Campus Organization. 7:00 d.m. Danfort Chapel.
Campus forum, 8:00 p.m. Kansas Union Ballroom. Chancellor Murphy will moderate. Sen. Joseph McDowell and Don Williams will speak Political Emphasis Week.
Seven companies have scheduled interviews with seniors and graduate students in the School of Business for this week. Interviews scheduled are:
Business Interviews Set for This Week
Wednesday—National Carbon Co. marketing.
Friday — Colgate-Palmolive Co. accounting and finance; Continental Illinois National Bank, commercial banking, operating and trust; American Institute for Foreign Trade, advanced preparation for positions in foreign countries.
Thursday—Haskins and Sells, accounting.
Grant Renewed For Polio Study
The birthplace of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N. Y. was dedicated as a national shrine April 12, 1946.
Dr. Howard Matzke, associate professor of anatomy, has received a renewal on an $11,608 research grant from the U.S. Public Health Service.
Dr. Matzke and his assistants recently completed the fourth year of study on the route of tetanus toxin from a wound to the brain. This year they will study the route of polio virus in the system.
Jean Foster, graduate student McMinville, Ore., and Diana Schellenberg, research assistant. Lawrence, will assist on the project this year.
The project, including research on other viruses, will be continued for four more years with the support of the USPHS.
KU Payroll Out by Sat.
University payroll checks for October will not be available to students until Saturday morning at the earliest.
Charles Harkness, personnel director, said checks are never received by the payroll department until the first day of the month. They are not ready for distribution until the second or third day, he said. Mr. Harkness has had several calls from students requesting checks.
Checks will be given at the business office window instead of at the pavroll department this year.
All students must show their ID cards and pick up their own checks, Mr. Harkness said.
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IN PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Gov. George Docking last night said sales tax has become a "dirty word" in the Republican political vocabulary.
Campaign Fever Rises As Election Day Nears
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"Our Republican opponents have been strangely, but understandably silent regarding the keystone of their state tax program," the governor said. "You never hear them mention sales tax.
Political campaigning in the state and across the nation continued to mount last night and today as leaders of both parties geared for a down-to-the wire fight for votes in the Nov. 4 elections.
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Speaking before a Johnson County rally at Indian Hills Junior High School in suburban Kansas City, the Democratic Governor said a GOP-sponsored increase in the state sales tax amounted to inviting Kansans to shop out of state.
"It has become a dirty word in the Republican political vocabulary, and well it should be because that one-half per cent increase has strapped every segment of our Kansas economy."
Docking three times vetoed a Republican-backed $ \frac{1}{2} $ per cent sales tax increase before the law passed over his objections in a recent special session of the legislature.
IN KANSAS CITY Rep. Errett P. Scriviner, (R-Kan), last night described Newell A. George, his general election opponent, as "stooge and errand boy" for a local labor leader, James Yount.
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Replying to charges voiced earlier by Yount, Scrivner said his office has always been open to any person or group from his district. Yount, who had charged he was unable to get any consideration from Scrivner in Washington, received a "full hearing" in a visit to his office March 12. Scrivner said.
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"If would-be labor boss Yount hasn't had all the time he wanted to talk about his program, it is because he hasn't come to see me." Scrivner said. He addressed precinct committeewomen here.
IN PITTSBURGH, President Eisenhower last night pictured Democrats as economic villains bent on carrying out "hare-brained spending schemes" and asked all Americans regardless of party to reject the "irresponsible and radical" policies of the Democratic party.
in another of his "tough-talk" campaign speeches the President portrayed the Republicans as "solid ...sensible" economic heroes of the recent recession whose greatest job was defending the country against Democratic "merchants of gloom."
The "Republican approach" of his administration to the recession and its "sensible programs" have created a situation where "things are good and rapidly getting better," Eisenhower told his Pittsburgh audience.
IN WASHINGTON, Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla), back from campagning in several states, today predicted a "Democratic sweep reaching the proportions of 1936" if the present trend among voters continues until Nov. 4.
Monroney's view challenged Vice-President Richard M. Nixon's statement yesterday before a Republican fund-raising meeting in Michigan that a "striking shift of voter opinion" had halted the trend toward a Democratic landslide.
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