Rely on the Poor and Lower-Middle Peasants to Carry Through Teaching Reform

Abstract

How can rural middle schools really serve the Three Great Revolutionary Movements? Over the past few years, the Party branch of Chi-pan Middle School aroused the entire teacher and student body to seriously study Chairman Mao's thought on education and to understand that in the countryside it is the broad masses of poor and lower-middle peasants who are the mainstay of the Three Great Revolutionary Movements and that if the classes are divorced from their wishes and needs, the policy that "education must serve proletarian politics and must be coordinated with labor production" cannot be carried out thoroughly and well. From this understanding, they regularly took the initiative in plunging into the communes and production brigades to listen to the opinions of the poor and lower-middle peasants, to unceasingly reform the old educational system, and to reform the old teaching policies and methods. The more work they did, the better it was.