A New Type of School That Combines Theory With Practice

Abstract

This article was originally printed in the Kiangsi Daily. With some minor changes, it is reprinted here for our readers' reference. This school has only four full-time teachers (with one of them in charge). Other teachers are part-time; they are workers, tea-growers, and technicians who were promoted from among the workers. This system works out very well. Can this experience be adopted in all city schools? Although how to select students from poor and lower-middle peasants was not discussed in the article, rather good experiences have been recorded in other sources. Judging from this experience, it is possible to put Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary educational ideology into practice faster in the villages than in other areas; this is because it is easier for the schools in the villages to establish the supremacy of poor and lower-middle peasants. This experience further proves how necessary it is to send workers' Mao Tse-tung's thought propaganda teams, including People's Liberation Army personnel, to all schools in the cities. Those of us who still have reservations about this policy had better study the conditions in the villages.