To build such a team of proletarian intellectuals, it is necessary to carry out a thorough
proletarian educational revolution, take the revolutionary path of cultivating technical
personnel and other intellectuals from among the workers, peasants, and soldiers, and select
students from among workers, peasants, and PLA soldiers with practical production
experience. At the same time, it is also necessary to re-educate a large number of
intellectuals who graduated from the old schools in the past, and to win over and unite the
broad masses of intellectuals.
Issue and send out.

[1] This first version is Mao Zedong's revision of the article, with the text he added or revised
printed in italics. This second version is his commentary written on the table of contents
page of the third issue of the Red Flag magazine submitted for review by Yao Wenyuan, a
member of the Central Committee's Cultural Revolution Group, on 10 September 1968. Yao
Wenyuan stated in his submission report: "Submitting the table of contents for the third
issue of the Red Flag magazine for approval. If the editorial article is not suitable, please
cross it out. There is an important passage by the Chairman in the article “The Barefoot
Doctor,” which we propose to highlight in bold. We are attaching it for your approval." The
editorial article, titled ‘On the Re-education of Intellectuals,’ and the article ‘The Barefoot
Doctor,’ titled ‘On the Direction of the Medical Education Revolution as Seen from the
Growth of the Barefoot Doctor,’ were both published in the third issue of the Red Flag
magazine in 1968.
[2] This commentary article in the People's Daily and Hongqi magazine was written to
accompany the publication of Mao Zedong's ‘Editor's Note for Hongqi Magazine.’ The
original title was ‘An Extremely Important Issue,’ but Mao Zedong changed it to ‘On the Re-
education of Intellectuals’ when he reviewed it. It was published in the third issue of the Red
Flag magazine on 10 September 1968 and in the People's Daily on 12 September.