In order to run the schools well, we must first of all resolve the problem of
the backbone of the leadership in the schools...
Once you have a strong principal, good teachers will be produced...
By pedagogical reform we mean the reform in the contents of education
and in teaching methods. Therefore we ought to revise the teaching materials
and compile [manuals on] pedagogical methodology...
In primary school education, labor education ought to be emphasized...
The document concerning the system of five-year primary school [curriculum] is not bad...
We must develop the schools with all sorts of diverse methods: we must not
insist on uniformity...
Primary schools that are run by the people [themselves] ought to be allowed.
Source: Chairman Mao on the Revolution in Education, Beijing, Renmin Chubanshe, 1967.