LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CALLS ATTENTION TO RED DRIVE FOR BETTER TECHNICAL EDUCATION

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• Publication Date: September 24, 1956
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CHICAGO NEWS SL ' 2 4 1956
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V-14'Effs TO THE EDITOR
Calls Attention to Red Drive
Fnr Bel or Ter-hnical Education'
Is there any limit to the variety of ways in which we
1 cflucational and scientific fields. Don't try to smile tl t off.l'
Distinguished educators
and scientists from a num-
leer of Western snd neutral
nations outside the ''Iron
Curtain" are examinielg the
Soviet secondary sehoO text-
books and finding them
"best in the wai"id."
They have studied the high-
er educational facilities,, of the
U.S.S.R. and found then sur-
passing us almost two to one
in the number of scientists
and engineers turned out in
1955. In the last five yea e;:a
they graduated 260,000 to mir
I they propose to gradu
000 to our 153,000.
AS HEAD of : . A Mr.
Allen Miles reads tll dli-
Bence teports from his far-,,
flung agency and sounds the
alarm in these words, "Unless
we quickly take new measures
to increase our own facilities
for scientific education, Soviet
scientific manpower In key
areas may well outnumber us
within the next decade."
New York educational ex-
perts are quoted as being
;reatty impressed after look-
ing at the examination iven
Russian students graduating
in classes covering algebra,
physics and chemistry and
as commenting thus: "Our
students haven't the math-
ematical tools the Soviet stu-
dents have.
"Their combination of ad-
vanced algebra and s='ience
gives them something we can-
not now match. The future de-
velopment of science in the
Soviet Union would seem to
have an unlimited horizon."
Is anyone in American pub-
j life noticing these .rings
liciel:l:iv"' Or caliin~, our
tendon to them sharply
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