Training For Tomorrow [antikvár]

FOREWORD C. F. POWELL In September 1962, a Conference on Higher Scientific and Technical Education was held in Moscow under the joint auspices of the World Fédération of Scientific Workers and three institutions of higher learning in the Soviet Union: the Lomonosov University, the Bauman Technological Institute and the Lenin Pedagogical Institute. The symposium was widely représentative, the participants coming from nearly forty countries from all over the world, including nine from Asia, five from Africa and six from Latin America. In addition, several international organizations were re-presented including UNESCO, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the World Fédération of Teachers, the International Association of Universities, the International Union of Students and the World Fédération of Trade Unions. This volume contains two of the principle papers presented at the Symposium, the reports of two sections and my concluding remarks. It represents, I believe, a very valuable contribution to the international literature on a subject which is already of great and urgent importance in countries, all over the world, at widely different levels in their progress and development.* It is a theme which will undoubtedly continue to grow in significance in the decades ahead. The importance of the subject springs from the fact that we are in the early stages of a great social révolution which is being brought about through man's growing mastery of scientific method and its widespread application to ever wider aspects of human affairs. Thanks to science, such a général improvement for the whole of mankind is possible for the first time in history, and the pattern of S For a full list of the papers read at the Symposium see Appendix (p.79).