Education in Cambodia

Abstract

The Clearing House is interested in publishing articles that describe both educational policy and school systems in other countries of the world. The editors hope that you find these descriptions interesting and helpful. How can we react intelligently to comparisons involving American schools and foreign schools unless we have reliable information about the latter? And who can better provide that information than professionals who have spent years in study of schools abroad? We simply do not know enough about world-wide conditions in education to appraise uninformed statements that make our schools appear deficient in terms of schools in Europe, for example. That is why The Clearing House devotes space to what is known as comparative education. Here are articles describing school systems and cultural conditions in three widely diverse countriesCambodia, Denmark, and Pakistan. Frederick J. Hollister, our first author, is professor of sociology at Buffalo (New York) State Teachers College. In 1956-57, he was a member of a six-man team that furnished technical assistance to the Royal Government of Cambodia in establishing the first rural teachers college there-Centre de Prdparation Pddagogique de Kompong-Kantuot. John F. Ohles, author of the second article, is assistant professor at the Fredonia (New York) State Teachers College and spent a year in Denmark surveying schools there. William Kaplan, author of the final article, is principal of Audenried Junior High School, Philadelphia, which was the school home for one month of a visiting junior-senior high-school principal from Karachi, Pakistan.