Reform Universities of Liberal Arts Through Revolutionary Mass Criticism

Abstract

This article dwells on the importance of revolutionary mass criticism and social survey to the reform of universities of liberal arts. Having conscientiously summed up their lesson in traversing a tortuous path, Futan University's "May 7" experimental liberal arts class resolutely carried out Chairman Mao's instruction, "Liberal arts should take the whole society as its factory," and centering on revolutionary mass criticism, organically combined classroom teaching and the Three Great Revolutionary Movements. Over the question of teaching material, they persisted in putting all courses of study under command of Marxism, Leninism, and Mao Tsetung thought. Taking Chairman Mao's works as the basic teaching material and opposing transplanting of the old teaching material, they overcame the lack of teaching material. In the course of revolutionary mass criticism they broke the old concept of "dignity of teachers" and built a new teacher-student relationship. Teaching presented an initial outlook of "officers educate men, men educate officers, and men educate one another."