Order No. 12 / 1962 Coll.
Government resolution laying down principles for youth deployment and admission to further study
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of 17 January 1962
laying down the principles governing youth deployment and admission to further study
The Government, on the basis of a resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, sets out the following principles for youth deployment and admission to further study:
The fundamental question of building an advanced socialist society and a gradual transition to communism is to build a massive material technical base based on the rapid and versatile development of production forces. Such growth in production forces will be made possible by the further development of science and its use in industrial and agricultural production, the consistent introduction of new technology, the development of automation, complex mechanisation, chemistry and electrification of the entire national economy.
Human activity in the field of material production will be increasingly creative, linked to science and technology. The material technical base of communism will create conditions for gradually overcoming the substantial differences between physical and mental work, between the city and the village.
These profound changes in the production process impose increased demands on the preparation of scientific, technical and other beakers with organizational skills. To achieve new labour productivity, much higher than today's productivity, we also need new people with such levels of education and such moral and professional training to be able to create and make the most use of the new technique of communism.
Higher requirements for the education of all-round educated, mentally and physically mature people also result from the tasks of further strengthening socialist social relations, increasing the participation of workers in the management of production and public life. Preparing workers for life in an advanced socialist and communist society increases the demands of political and moral education, to the level of general and vocational education for both young and adult. Education and study have ceased to be a privilege and a private matter, but has become an objective mass need and a necessary part of raising the standard of living of all workers.
The XI. Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was based on these principles when it set out the task of bringing the school closer together with life and production and changing the content of education and education so that the school would raise all-round educated people, both morally and physically ready to build a future communist society. Our entire school system has been adapted so that every young person can choose a path that matches his or her tendencies and talents and is in line with the needs of our national economy. The implementation of the highly democratic requirement of the XI. Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia - to provide the vast majority of young people with full secondary education by 1970 - means that this education will be given to every primary school graduate who is eligible for it. Secondary education will take place through three courses by graduating from a secondary school for workers or by studying at a secondary school in general or by studying at a secondary vocational school. For university studies, eligible candidates will be obtained and accepted in a number corresponding to the needs of our company's development, unless conditions are created for the provision of higher education to anyone who can acquire it.
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Together with economic development, there have been profound changes in the class structure of our society. The exploitation classes were liquidated, the peasants and other small-scale producers were already, for the most part, transferred to collective forms of production, the working class had grown extraordinarily and became a generally recognized leader of society. During these years, a new people's intelligence was created, and a large part of the older intelligence went through a major transformation. Transformations in the economy and in the class structure of our society, together with changes in the proportion of class forces on a global scale and the upbringing of our workers in the spirit of socialist ideology, have also led to changes in people's thinking and to the consolidation of the political and moral unity of our workers. Our society is now based on a firm union of workers, in which workers, cooperative peasants and intelligence form an absolute majority of the population with their families and build a united socialist society in our homeland.
This class structure is the basis for the gradual building of a single class society for workers. The main character of this company will be printed by a working class whose education will rise to the level of socialist intelligence.
These new historical facts, which have taken place as a result of the completion of socialist construction, create favourable conditions for education and allow for the development of education for all members of society at a new, qualitative level. In the light of the growing needs of qualified cadets, as well as in view of the current development of class relationships, new principles need to be applied in deciding how young people are to be integrated into life, how individual graduates of a basic nine-year-old school are to receive secondary education, and which secondary graduates and workers are to be recruited on a single subject of higher education.
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A comprehensive assessment of the candidate himself is a guiding principle and decisive criterion in the deployment of youth and admission to further study. Consideration is given to the political and moral aspect of his personality, specific theoretical and practical knowledge, skills and talents, interest in the field of study, youth organisation or other social organisation etc. The implementation of this principle of comprehensive assessment of the candidate alone allows for the important fact that all young people, coming to secondary and higher education institutions, grew up and formed mentally in new social conditions, were brought up by our new school, in the spirit of socialist ideology and the strength of our ideas and the whole new reality also influenced the family and other environments surrounding young people for 16 years.
To accelerate the development of our national economy and culture, all the skills and talents of young people must be used to the maximum. The great advantage of socialism is that, unlike the bourgeois society, it allows education to develop at both a qualitatively higher level and an incomparably wider, truly mass base, and that it develops all the talents on this broad base. This is one of the main reasons why the science and technology of socialist countries are catching up at an unstoppable pace and overriding the science and technology of the most advanced capitalist states.
The most numerous part of our society is the working class and cooperative peasants. Among the children of these basic and numerous classes of our society are many scientific, technical, organizational and artistic talents. However, in many worker and peasant families, especially those where both parents are employed, children still do not have the opportunity to express and develop their skills and talents. Therefore, the progress of those teachers and educators who give these children individual educational care must be highly appreciated. It is the honorary task of our school and of all extracurricular educational establishments and organisations of the Czechoslovak Youth Union to actively help develop the talents hidden among the children of all our workers and especially workers and peasants. This will achieve that these gifted children will go more than they have ever done in high school education, and in particular the schools of higher education and the overall social composition will be better suited to our society's social structure. Parents who, for various reasons, do not want to allow their gifted children to study in these schools must be explained the social importance of higher education in the period of the construction of a communist society in which their children will work and live. It is necessary to assume from the perspective that even in Czechoslovakia this generation will live in communism.
Our company is particularly interested in the development of extraordinary talent, especially scientific and technical. Exceptionally talented young people must definitely be allowed to study in higher education, give them increased educational care and, if necessary, ensure that their valuable skills are used as much as possible for the benefit of our society.
The experience of students acquired in social practice, especially in manufacturing practice, is of great importance for successful study, in particular for its consistent connection with life, for the awareness of knowledge and for the consolidation of teaching discipline. This is particularly true of the experience acquired by practical activities in the field to be studied by the applicant. Therefore, those candidates who have had at least one year of successful practice shall have priority when receiving applicants for studies, particularly in secondary vocational schools and universities.
When accepting students, care must also be taken to ensure the needs of qualified cadets in economically less developed counties, especially in border areas. Therefore, under the same conditions, it is preferable to allow those candidates who have been awarded a regional or racing scholarship and who have undertaken to work after graduation in these areas.
The overall profile of the student, especially politically and morally, is also influenced by his family environment. This is why the personal contribution of parents to the building of socialism and to the consolidation of our country is taken into account in the deployment of youth in the various streams of middle school and, in particular, in universities.
In the deployment of young people, the class aspect cannot be ignored. It is a youth still growing up in former large bourgeois families and in families exposed to reaction factors. In these individual cases, while maintaining the principle of a comprehensive assessment of the tenderer himself, due account should be taken of this fact.
The right party aspect is the selection of cadres according to their political and working qualities. Only such a choice is fully in line with the level of development of our society.
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The main precondition for successful deployment and admission to further study is the correct and targeted education of young people to the profession. The deeply democratic and humanistic nature of our society, in which the fundamental interests of the individual and society are consistent, allows and requires the integration of each individual into a working environment that ensures both the full personal satisfaction of the work carried out and the best use of its creative powers and talent for the benefit of the whole.
The right education and guidance for youth to choose a profession will be achieved by the fact that the self-admission of pupils and students to further studies will not be a one-off or even an administrative act that can lead to random and incorrect decisions, but will become a logical and natural result of long-term training for study and the future social application of each individual.
The important task of this education at a basic nine-year-old school is to skillfully develop the talent, ability and moral qualities of each individual, so that he will consciously decide on one of the three courses of obtaining complete secondary education. Also, when raising and selecting applicants for higher education, we must ensure that a sufficient number of applicants are prepared for all fields of study who are able to successfully manage an increasingly demanding study in the field in which they have shown an interest.
Teaching young people to choose their profession should be seen as one of the fundamental elements of the social mission of teachers, educators and parents for their political importance. It will therefore be carried out consistently and continuously in the basic nine-year school as well as in the second cycle schools, in close cooperation with parents and social organisations.
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The growing needs of skilled cadres for economic and cultural development of advanced socialist society cannot be covered only by the daily study of adult secondary and university youth. Life is urgently forcing itself to develop various forms of study at work increasingly. It is therefore a duty to select, prepare and send certified staff to study at work and to study daily with a break in employment, to monitor their study results and to create favourable working conditions for them everywhere. It is a serious task of all economic workers, party workers, trade unions and youth organisations at races, single agricultural cooperatives and other workplaces, planning to raise the qualifications of their workers and employees. When recommending to study, applicants from the workplace are assessed in the same terms as applicants from schools at the race committee.
All establishments and enterprises do not have the same choice of suitable staff to study. It is therefore necessary to make use of all the possibilities of each workplace, thereby increasing the skills mix of workers in the whole sector. In doing so, account should also be taken of the provision of new capacities by expert cadres. In this respect, the central authorities and the authorities of their subordinate units lead them to overcome only closely local interests and to better understand the needs and interests of the whole company.
The competitions not only send to the studies those certified workers who return to the race after graduation and who therefore receive a racing scholarship and other work benefits. They will also release other suitable candidates and those who joined to obtain the production practice needed for university studies.
Each individual's effort for higher education is fully in line with the demands of raising a communist person. Therefore, competitions and other workplaces support the interest of every worker in studying at work. This study is to be made possible on the widest scale, and this is how it is done in businesses and institutions.
It is also the duty of the services of our People's Army to encourage more troops to continue their studies and in the second year of basic services to carry out selection and to create conditions for preparing candidates to study in high school and university after the completion of basic military service.
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The deployment of young people and the admission to further study is a politically important task which will significantly affect the formation of our socialist intelligence and will be of great importance for the further development of production forces. Therefore, not only all teachers and school staff must pay attention to him, but also to the managers of economic and state bodies, national committees and officials of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement, the Czechoslovak Youth Association and the Association of Parents and Friends of the School.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Resolution No. 12 / 1962 Coll., laying down the principles for youth deployment and admission to further studies |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 06.02.1962 |
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| Effective from | - |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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