The Czechoslovaks assumed the responsibility of maintaining a national government in 1918 and shortly thereafter established a national system of public education. In the past 17 years that system has been developed and perfected until it includes nearly every phase of human training activities undertaken by any people. Basal instruction is offered in and through several mother tongues to care for the children of the different language groups; advanced education is available through two main languages. The general culture of the people is insured and enhanced by a system of schools and organizations carefully planned and integrated for that purpose. Parallel to that and closely connected with it are schemes for training workers in the agricultural, livestock, mining, and commercial activities of the Republic. The fine industrial development of Czechoslovakia calls for many kinds of technical training, and few, if any, countries have set up any better technical schools or any greater variety of them. Education in this young nation is described in this bulletin written by a member of the Office of Education staff to whom was assigned the duty of visiting Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1934, studying its schools, and reporting on them. The facts and impressions were obtained from first-hand study of a great number of various types of schools, many interviews with school authorities, and careful reading of official reports and documents. The author believes that the schemes of academic and vocational training unified and centralized as they are in the Ministry of Education and National Culture, are strong assurances of the prosperity and well-being of the nation. This bulletin is divided into 10 chapters, as follows: (1) General Conditions; Characteristics of the Education System; (2) Administration; Organization of Instruction; Statistical Survey; National Expenditures on Education; (3) Preschool and Elementary Education; (4) Secondary Schools for General Education; (5) The Teaching Staff: Status, Training, Certification, Remuneration, Voluntary Organizations; (6) Physical Culture; Adult Education; Social Welfare Work; (7) Industrial Training in Technical Schools of Secondary and Lower Grade; (8) Agricultural and Commercial Training in Schools of Secondary and Lower Grade; (9) Institutions of University Rank, Exclusive of those for Technical, Agricultural, and Commercial Education; and (10) Technical Institutions of University Rank; Agencies for Research and National Culture. Individual chapters contain bibliographies and footnotes. (Contains 78 tables.) [Best copy available has been provided.]