Считалось лучшим в мире. И мир это ощущал. Тоже не понимаю, нафига менять что-то хорошее.
Кем, блядь, считалось?
Заебали вы с этой мантрой носиться...
блядь, отчего
полупоцы полуукры еще тупее укров полных?
да на тебе. на самделе у амеров в 50-60 была истерика относительно успехов ссср, и они довольно активно рефлексировали причины
только ты ж небось по наглийски не читаешь... ну дык это твои личные проблемы и комплексы наружу лезут, тупица. качай мышцу дальше
речь кеннеди от 1958 года
It is still difficult for many of us to believe that the Russians have a university better than any of our own.
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Even after the Communists demonstrated solid intellectual and scientific accomplishments, many Americans refused to recognize the reasons. It was easier to believe that these were all secrets stolen by Communist spies or extracted from captured German scientists. (Under this theory, we could have launched a satellite first if the Democratic Administration had only used carbon paper!) But our real regret is not that the Russians stole these secrets from us, but that we were unable to steal them from the Russians.
There are still others who are convinced that every Russian achievement is simply a crude imitation of our own. But the truth of the matter is that in many areas we are seeking to imitate the Russians. A year ago an American firm asked the Soviets for the right to manufacture a Russian-developed turbo-drill -- it could dig oil wells through hard rock ten times as fast as any American drill. Our scientists admire the Soviet sputniks. Our aeronautical engineers envy their intercontinental jet bombers. Our atomic physicists were impressed by their atomic reactors -- producing 5,000 kilowatts of commercial electric power -- in operation nearly four years ago.
In short, we have badly deceived ourselves about Russian intellectual achievements. We have been complacent about our own supposed monopoly of know-how. We have been mistaken about their supposed ignorance. And we have completely failed to understand the crucial importance of intellectual achievements in the race for security and survival.
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EDUCATION IN THE U.S. AND U.S.S.R.
Who has the best system of education today -- the U.S. or the U.S.S.R.? Who will achieve this victory? Why are the Russians scoring now? Direct comparisons are difficult and in many ways meaningless. But let us at least be aware of what we are facing.
American students who finish high school complete 12 years of instruction -- comparable Russian students receive only 10 years. But in those 10 years they receive more hours of instruction than American students receive in 12. They attend classes 6 days a week, 10 months a year. They do not enjoy the long summer vacations originated in our system in response to the needs of an agricultural society.
They have approximately 17 pupils per teacher, we have 27. Aside from some choice in the selection of foreign languages, they have no elective subjects. The 10-year curriculum includes -- on a compulsory basis -- 5 years of physics, 5 years of biology, 4 years of chemistry, 1 year of astronomy and 10 years of mathematics up to trigonometry and elementary calculus. Few, if any, 12-year curricula in America cover as much.
Atomic Energy Chairman Strauss has stated: "I can learn of no public high school in our country where a student obtains so thorough a preparation in sciences and mathematics, even if he seeks it -- even if he should be a potential Einstein, Edison, Fermi or Bell." Only a small fraction of our high school graduates have had even one year of chemistry. An even smaller proportion have had one year of physics. In fact, more than half of our high schools do not teach any physics at all. In the last year for which statistics are available, we produced only 125 new physics teachers -- although we have at least 28,000 high schools.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/baltimore-md-19580218статья в журнале LIFE того же года
CRISIS IN EDUCATION: Schoolboys poin up a U.S. weakness, In U.S.R.R.: rough haul all the way
полный текст с фотками по ссылке
https://books.google.by/books?id=PlYEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=ru#v=onepage&q&f=falseкнижка от 1961
What Ivan Knows that Johnny Doesn't
By the time American schoolchildren get Jack and Jill up that hill, Soviet children of the same age will probably be discussing the hill's altitude, mineral deposits and geo-political role in world affairs. This profoundly disturbing book is a comparison of American and Soviet school curricula and textbooks. It proves that the sciences and mathematics are not the only subjects in which our children lag behind. By the time the American fourth grader has learned to read 1500 words from his typical classroom reader, a Soviet student in fourth grade will be expected to read at least 10,000 words and will be ready to plunge into history, geography and science. Why does Ivan at the age of nine have a reading vocabulary so much larger than Johnny's? Could it have anything to do with the fact that from his first reader on, Ivan reads Tolstoy and Pushkin and Gogol while Johnny follows the adventures of Jerry and the little rabbit that goes hop, hop, hop? If a Soviet student undertakes to learn English as his foreign language - as 45 per cent of those in the regular school do - he will study it for six consecutive years starting in the fifth grade, and he may well have read more literature in English by the Tenth grade than an American student will have been assigned by the twelfth grade. The cold, harsh facts are presented in contrasting programs of study and textbook selections, covering reading lessons, literature, foreign languages, history and geography. Tables of contents from actual Soviet and American school books appear side by side at the end of various chapters. Here for the first time is a fascinating report on the approaches used in Soviet schools which tells us how and what children under communism are being taught today to prepare them for the world leadership tomorrow. The authors offer suggestion on how we can strengthen our schools to meet the Soviet challenge - and fulfill our obligations to our children. No citizen - parent, educator, or just plain taxpayer - can afford not to read it.
https://books.google.ru/books?id=VarxsgEACAAJ&hl=ru&source=gbs_navlinks_sи это гуглица за 5 минут. потрать еще время - найдешь куда больше