Specialized Training, Communist Loyalty Taught in Soviet

Soviet education is but one reflection if the Soviet society in which the government plays a top role, Robert C. Tucker, associate professor of government at the University of Indiana said last Thursday.

Tucker, who for nine years was an attache of the United States embassy in Moscow and who toured the USSR last year with Adlai Stevenson, spoke on "Education and the Soviet Society" at the second Thursday lecture.

The main purposes of the state-controlled education policy are "to train in a specialized vocation and to indoctrinate loyalty to the Soviet Communist party," he said.

Tucker explained that the Kremlin is in the process of working out a plan to reorganize the educational system. The plan is outlined in a law passed last December, entitled "On the Strength of the Connection of School and Life in the USSR." Tucker said that the word "life" refers to the life of material production.