The Problems of the Contents of School Education in the USSR

various disciplines, representatives of culture and art, and workers in education took part in it. The committee's main task was to formulate new syllabi and curricula for all subjects in the secondary school. To draft the curricula, the committee was subdivided into fifteen smaller committees according to subjects. They were headed by important representatives of science and culture: academician Kolmogorov (mathematics), academician Kikoin (physics), academician (Mrs.) Mechkina (history), composer Kabalevskij (music), and so on. Of course, our schools previously had syllabi and curricula for all subjects and had acquired some positive experience when working with them. But when this committee was formed, articles by scientists, writers, and teachers had started to appear in the Soviet daily and professional press, criticizing much in the curricula, especially with regard to the fact that they were behind the present stage of