SUMMARY OF POLITICAL TEXTBOOK NO 2 FOR HIGHER PRIMARY SCHOOLS

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• Publication Date: August 18, 1950
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SUMMARY OF FOLITICAL TEXTBOOK NO 2
JFOR HIGHER PRIMARY SCHOOLS
"This report includes the table of contents and a surrmlary of each lesson.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 How to Study
2. Making a Public Covenant.
:. Cohesion and Criticism
4.. Mutual Respect and Love Between Teacher and Pupil
5.. How tv Treat Fellow Pupils
G. Benefits of Joining the Children's Corps
7, Chiang Lao-hen's Grandchildren
8~ New Realization That Father Is Lovable
9., The CYiinese Have Stood Up
10~ "If There Were No CCP There Could Be No New China."
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Who 16 Vw.' Heal ra
7.2~ Sincere Helper
l3o Children's Paradise of the Soviet Union
14~ Internationalism
15;. Production and Austerity
16., Consumer Cooperatives ~i~~s~i~~T'~~.
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18. Organization of ,Juve.nile Dramatics
Lesson 1
Uses s+,ory of a student. who was at the head of the class under the
KMT school. system, but who .f led entirely in election by his fellow students
under the CCP school ~ystPm.. Teaches qualities of analytic study, ability to
reproduce lesson> ir. i?~i'?ten reports, helpfulnesq to fellow students, willing-
ness to inquire of others, wi].iingnes= to imbibe new ideas, and ability to
engage in discussion.
Lesson Z
Ten la~.~s drawn up by stradents after disc?assion under student chairman-
ship, emphasizing promptness, diligence, att,enti~reness, temperate habits of
study and work, self-help and mutual helpfulness and helpfulness to parents,
friendliness, .face-to-Pace friendly criticism of faults, no gossip, and
discipline.
I,es~on 3
Teaches vi-ruse of avoiding cliques in social relations and the
adv7nt;agee of tmiking out differences in a friendly spirit of mutually helpful
criticism:
Le==_on. u
Y Teaches that. the true re:,.atioraship between teacher and pupil should be
one of mutual rega.rd., The pupil. gives his allegiance because he recognizes the
qualities of leadership, service, and fellowship in the teacher, who rules by
wise counsel and patience
LeS~Cn
Mutual forbearance and helpfulnes in pupil social relations.. How to
help the refracrory to reform,
Lesson 6
Teaches virtues of cooperative living and learning through discussion
and criticism i.r_ the Children's Corps
Lesson 7
How the Children's Corps helped an old man harvest his corn
I~sson 8
Teaches children to expose the faults of their parents to tegc~heraenndd
local officials. Uses illustration of father who disliked to pay gr
sought to make the grain heavier and the kernels fuller by adding water to the
grain The child, filled with shams at this deceptionh~told hPfo athervlllage
told him to tell the local officiais~ ?Fne father ~~
meeting, criticized, and made to confess his faults> The child was then again
reconciled to the parent?~
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Lesson 9
Teacher tells s??udents of the case of Angus SJard, playing up the most
vicious aspects. of the complaints laid against him. After this the puplls vie
with each other in recalling other alleged atrocities of American soldiers in
China in their treatment of Chinese civilians. Footnctes give dates and places
of the incidents The impotence of the I{T1T authorities and the prompt protec-
tion of the people's rights by the present. government are contrasted. Topics
for discussions 41hy present authorities protect the people, and why IQ~
author t.*.ies failed to do so,
.Lesson 10
Ursa discussion 5snong pupils and pupils with teacher about the meaning
of ??Y,~ song entitled, "If There 41ere No CCP There Could Be No New china," to
bring out vir*.ues of *.he party in overthrowing the Japanese and later the
feudalistic KMf, and in dividing r.,he land ,jastly among the peasants..
Lesson 11
Story of a group of Chinese pupils watching a "dog fight" between
Nationalist and Japanese planes over Hankow in 1938. One of the Nationalist
planes is damaged and the flyer bales out?. Although shot a.t by the Japanese
on the way down, he lands and is surrounded by the pupils, who, observing that
he is a foreigner, try English and other languages on him without success until
one shouts "wu-la"; then the flyer responds with a like shout and is thus
identified as a Soviet. flyer.. The lesson ends with everybody happy over the
wonderful friendship of t?he Soviet Union for China which leads her t?o send her
flyers to Chinas aid,
Lesson 12
Reports a conver.=_at?ion between a pupil and his mother who works in the
railway shops in Dairen: The child asks about the foreigners he sees in a
picture of workmen his mother brings home. The mother explains that they are
Soviet technicians who are teaching the Chinese workmen many skills in ,ontrast
to the Japanese who never taught the Chinese such skills, retaining them only as
common laborers whom they could browbeat at will. Now, the boy is told, after
~_,_. w ~ +han ik nnn r`hlnPSe technicians have been trained,
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and 150 Chinese workers have become shop superintendents The child is greatly
impressed and is convinced that China has at last found a real friend in the USSR=
Lesson 13
A person, returned from the Soviet Union, tells a schoolroom of pupils
about the so-called Children's Paradise "pale.ces" in Russia where children may
discuss and gain practical experience in all sorts of skills and trades,
according to their natural bent, under supervision of trained leaders. The
speaker told of the one he had seen in Leningrad and said there were thousands
of such "palaces" throughout the country..
Lesson 14
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Father discuses with son the meaning of internationalism in response
to the child`s question as to why Chinese should be interested in the affairs
and imperialism, formerly led by Japan andwncw bytthe US ~EmPhasizesd he uni.tya~
of the working class in all countries.
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Lesson 15
Pupil writes from Peiping to former schoolmate in old rural home area
where famine conditions are severe, Tells of all the plans of the government
for famine relief, stresses the government grogram of production and austerity
for,self-help, and suggests a great variety of lines oeavinglonesuppliescatid
tions~ Tells hov his school in Peiping is helping by
equipment and doing its own work on repairs, etc.,
Lesson 16
Teacher explains the consumer cooperative idea to pupil whose mother
wants to know about it~
Lesson 17
Pupil describes the class' visit to the industrial exhibit where they
learned how fast China is progressing in the field of industrial productiono
Lesson 18
pupil is sent by class to organize "Yangko" and other dramatic exercises
in a country gillage~ Has to overcome bashfulness and what he calls feudalistic
backwardness among the village childreno
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