To carry out the proletarian education revolution, we must rely on the broad ranks of revolutionary students, revolutionary teachers, and revolutionary workers in schools. We should draw strength from the most active elements among them—namely, the proletarian revolutionary factions who are determined to see the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution through to the end.

(Quoted from the “Editor’s Note” appended by the People’s Daily to its October 27, 1967, article “Several Preliminary Proposals on the Education Revolution.”)