the Karl Marx Hochschule in Berlin, by the trade
unions. The State universities sent professors
to teach in these institutions, or arranged special
lecture courses of their own for the worker. According to impartial authorities, however, as well
as even persons opposed to the present National
Socialist regime, these institutions were a failure in so far as achieving their purpose of attracting every-day workers and raising the educational
level of this class. By all accounts the courses
given were too advanced, too "intellectual" and of
too theoretical and deeply philosophical a nature
to appeal to workers other than those of the most
exceptional intelligence. The National Socialist
institution of Strength through Joy has made no
such mistakes and while its educational standards
are doubtless lower, it appears to have devised a
system which is suited to the intellectual level
of the people for whom it is intended, all the time
forming them to the mould of the reigning Party.
While criticism may be made of the material putveyed, the methods of organization and of teaching
stand as perhaps patterns of the proper approach
to the minds of the masses.
 
 The Office for Popular Education is run with
the assistance of an advisory board consisting of
one officer from its own bureau, an official from
the Ministry of Education, and an official from