MILITARY TRAINING
IN SOVIET SCHOOLS. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.* LONDON, August 13. A Moscow correspondent says: Bubna-v, the new Commissar of Education, lias completely swept away the Tsarist school system. The Soviet is preparing a three years’ compulsory programme for sixteen million children, 8 to 10 years of age, the compulsory term, extending yearly until by 1936, all will be given complete seven years’ elementary teaching, free from “religious mysticism, and metaphysical trash.” The children are taught to expect to fight to protect the State from invasion. Boys and girls begin at the age of nine to learn miltary drill and tactical elements, accompanied by sports and physicial training. The schools will be the most modern in the world. The country institutions are providing training in scientific agriculture, the city schools’ curriculum being concerned with factories.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1930, Page 6
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136MILITARY TRAINING Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1930, Page 6
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