ACHIEVEMENTS AND ERRORS IN RUMANIAN EDUCATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 119
• Publication Date: May 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
CLASSIFICATION w~ giyR UFFCC Al USE
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1952
DATE.D!ST. I May 1953
CENTRAL IYTELLi::F,E AGENCY
CLASSIFICAil)N NO. OF PA
PUBLISHED Bucharest; Vienna
DATE
PUBLISHED 1 Aug, 12 Nov 1952
LANGUAGE Rumanian; German
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
WHERE
COUNTRY Rumania
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ACHIEVEMENTS AND ERRORS IN RUMANIAN EDUCATION
EDUCATION IN RUMANIA -- Vienna, Nachrichten aus der Rumanischen Volksrepublik,
1 Aug 52
The education of college-trained specialists for various professions de-
mands the improvement of existing educational facilities and the creation of
new upper schools. New techn!.cal schools have been established which link
higher education with production and practical life. The present number of
teachers has grown 92.7 percent since 1948-49, and 307.3 percent since
1938-39. The number of students has increased 123.6 percent since 1938-39.
Several institutions now have evening and correspondence courses for
professional work, including special courses in practical engineering. Thus,
outstanding students have an opportunity to specialize and increase their
productivity.
The number of scholarships in 1952 was 142.3 percent higher than in
1948-49, The Republic and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej scholarships provide an
added stimulus for outstanding students. Besides providing meals at the stu-
dent kitchen, these scholarships give the student 50 lei per month for per-
sonal expenses and free lodging in students' homes; if the student does not
wish to live in these homes, he receives an additional 50 lei for rent. In
addition to these benefits, the student receives 820 lei for clothing allow-
ance.
In the 1951-52 school year, the number of student homes rose 75.6 per-
cent over the 1948-49 figure and the number of students accommodated rose to
146,8 percent. During the same period, the s'aient kitchens increased 38.4
percent, and the number of students eating at these kitchens rose 98.5 per-
cent.
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During the 1951-52 school year, the number of school children whose
parents are factory and farm workers rose to 62.4 percent-over the number
in 1949-50. The m"vber of students who were sons of workers rose 148.63
percent during the same period.
At present, all national minorities in Rumania have the same rights and
privileges in schools as Rumanian children. The number of minority language
schools is increasing As of August 1952, there were 3,541 schools of all
grades for national minorities, attended by 319,269 children. For example,
2,579 schools bold classes in Hungarian, 542 schools in German, 149 in
Ukrainian, 39 in Russian, 66 in Tatar, 65 in Serbian, 87 in Slovak, and 9
in Croatian.
Gypsies in Bihor Raion, Ciuca Panua colony in Pradea, and Satu-Lung
in Stalin Raion were virtually illiterate in the plat. Now they have their
own schools, and the rate of illiteracy is steadily dropping. Thousands of
Pioneers and students belonging to national minorities spend their holidays
with Rumanian students at sea or mountain resorts and enjoy the same sports,
cinema, and other forms of entertainment.
IMPROVEMENT OF WORK IN SCHOOLS -- Bucharest, Vista Capitalei, 12 Nov 52
Some 900 teachers and school principals of Bucharest Regiune attended
special summer courses In 1959, to learn how to improve the curriculum of
schools. Moreover, through the medium of self-taxation, people's councils
and teachers have succeeded in establishing household units in every boarding
school. In Branesti, Crevedia, Draganesti, and LehLiu raions, the funds
from this taxation were used for new school buildings and completion of
buildings previously started.
However, not all raions and communes prepared themselves equally well
for the new school year. In Turnu-Magurele, for instance, out of ten school
units that had been proposed for construction and installation, not one has
been started. In Bratulestl, Caciulati Raion, the people's council did not
even succeed in obtaining the necessary funds for repairing the schoolhouse.
The people's council of Oltenita stated that it was not even able to prepare
the premises of the dormitories at the teachers' school,
Another problem that was not solved is the supplying of schools with
manuals. Thus, at Peris school, there were very fe?" manuals for th e
Rumanian-language course in the fifth grade, or alphauet manuals for the first
grade, An Oltenita school. brad too many copies of Bazele Dsrwinismului (Bases
of Darwinism).. In Zimnicea Raion, only 60 natural history manuals were sup-
plied for the 517 pupils of the sixth grade, and only 150 mathematics manuals
were avai'.able fnr the. 460 pupils of the fifth grade. In Giurglu Raion, the
cooperatives did not get their supplies on time or in sufficient quantaties.
Raton teachers held meetings between 10 and 12 September 1952 to set up
working plans for the first two quarters of the school yea'. However, some
educational personnel do not give full attention to working plans and show
no interest in the children~s studies.
Trandafir Petrescu of Rarari school, Ecaterina Neicu of Domnesti school,
.and many other teachers underestimate the importance of a teacher's work.
They come to class without prepared lectures, give superficial explanations,
and do not control. systematically the students' learning ability,
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Ioana Atanasiu of the Calarasi Pedagogical School gives superficial
lectures and teaches the Rumanian language mechanically, without drawing a
parallel between teaching and present-day life.
In view of the lack of efficiency, it is very urgent that teachers, pro-
fessors, school pr..ncipals, and inspectors take all necessary measures to
force the teaching staff into a more effective cooperation. Teachers and
professors have the obligation to acquire Marxist-Leninist science and to rid
themselves of old concepts which are reactionary, idealistic, and coswopoli-
tan.
Furthermore, teachers should enlist poor and average peasants in the
fight against kulaks, so that peasants may become a powerful link in the
chain of the working people. Teachers have the duty of weaving events of
the day into their educational pattern and of supporting all ideas of the
party.
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