NEW EDUCATION FOR A NEW CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600260864-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 864
• Publication Date: November 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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The nex People's Regime has created nex conditions for i:ua uevelvpuLaat o,
eiincation. To complete the task oY building the Rex Chinn our education mast
stress the relation between education and government.
This xork has proceded in the liberated sans along txo lin+e. It has been
carried. out in short-term institutions, such as the Rorth China University, xhi~.:h
concentrate entirely on indoctrination. These instltutions give primary place to
thought reconetrsctioss. The courses are concerned :rith the trrory of revalntion
and the rationale cf various pollcies, in the hope that the students x111. think
and have the faith and x111 to serve the people. Second, irR regu~.ar institutions,
the aev political thinking is poured into students, sad p~litirel training? i.s
made a part of the curriculum. For example, the North Chinn Conference oa Highe!r
Educntioe bRS dsirermiaec: that the required curriculum in all colleges and uaiver-
aities shall include dialectical materialism is the fi.rat term, sad the nex
democsecy fn the second term. ThiP indoctrination is rntirely different from KiLil`
party education which ma intended to train youth to be subservient to an oligarchy.
To 3oiu education ~L~ith productive labor becomes vital. In thu old KMP educa-
tional system they xvre unrelated. Persons trained in industrial schools often
xere incosrpetent to manage facto*i.ea. In liberated areas, vocational schools are
set up in close cannertioa xith manufacturing plants. Ia the Rortheaet there are
5,012 stucleata in ten higher technical schools located near plants; thus study
sad practive go hand in hand. School and plant supplement each o~he.s needs.
Bducaticn in the nev dtmecracy is democratic. Ia the liberated arses, students
are given freedom. For Pxampl.e, is the universities in Pei-ping, the students may
ask iqr chang=e is `he curriculum, the institution encourages the students to form
Small study gx~upe. ~rtrac+ss'icular nctlvitiea are not 3iscourged; instead, atn-
denta are encourged to develop n correct understeading of politics.
A new democratic unity has linked the entire people to xork for the inetltu-
t~ap, under a committee representing atudeatn and xoi~kera as xell as faculty.
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T`?~ doors oY tducatian. have non been opcued to the peoples. Under RMr ru'_e,
education was Yor the Yaw. ftov, education is for the people, it bslongs to them.
At present "the people" are laborers, pennants, petty boargeoisic, and xtationnl
eapitalista. We want all these people to het the rights sad opportunities of
education, especially ].nborers and peasants, who make up 90 Percent oY the..pop..
lation. Zn the ftortheast the middle schools have a quota of public~expease atu-
dents. Thane students are children oY revolutionary soldiers sad worluers, and oY
~1.ndigent 'aborers and peasants. In North Manchuria morn than 50 percent is thtr
middle sc`~aools, an3 more than $0 percent in the elementary came from poor homes.