Preparing Pupils for Continuing Education: An Urgent Task of the School

The scientific-technological revolution makes continuing education after the completion of formal schooling a necessity. Continuing education means purposeful training activity in various types of educational institutions (primary and secondary, higher, daytime, evening, correspondence) and various forms of self-education. It does not include the development of various aspects of the human personality that occurs spontaneously during a person's lifetime in different kinds of activity and relationships. In a developed socialist country where all facets of social life are planned, continuing education can and must be planned and incorporated into the unified state system of upbringing and educational work, which calls for a consistent and sensible combination of the different ways and means by which all members of society continuously enrich their general education and political knowledge, broaden their professional horizons, improve their skills, and raise their general cultural level.