Report of a seminar for social scientists held at the Kaunas Polytechnical Institute. Topics: methodological problems in higher education, educational and character building functions of higher education, the development of the student's intellectual and moral personality, and occupational choices of the student in higher education. (CB)

Confrontation of socialism and capitalism in the political socialization of today's Soviet and American youth. (SE)

The article analysizes the several variables which influence the character development of the child in the Soviet schools. Education is seen as responsible not only for inculcating useful social attitudes, but for teaching the child ways to handle his personal desires in a socially constructive manner. Several developmental stages are suggested.…

Review of Death at an Early Age" by Jonathan Kozol for the purpose of illustration. (DB)

Six articles discuss the state of the art of educational sociology in the Soviet Union. Topics discussed include demographic influences on education, the relationship between higher education and the national social structure, and the problem of the adaptation of newly trained teachers to their profession. (DB)

Discusses problems confronting universal rural education in the secondary grades including a lack of resources, inadequate numbers of schools, limited instructional materials, and teachers with specialized training for rural education programs. (MB)

Two works of Patricia Sexton, Education and Income, and The American School, are reviewed to illustrate the American schools' role in maintaining a class society. (DB)

With the great diversity of tasks involved in preparing school children for life and for labor activity, the problem of instilling in them a vocational interest in work continues to be the most acute. (Author/MB)

The teacher, as the main representative of the intelligentsia in the country-side, must master the technique of instilling in workers an excellent knowledge and deep love of the land. The training of rural teachers must include this facet of his future duties. (Author/MB)

Developments in preschool education of rural youth is reviewed by a workshop conference of preschool teachers. (MB)

Increasing importance is attached to developmental instruction in which the assimilation of knowledge and skills in the fundamentals of agriculture goes hand in hand with increased educational activity on the part of pupils and is organically linked with the formation of a scientific world view and with their intellectual and rounded development.…