Wake up（243）

 

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If the "suspension of classes and revolution" during the Cultural Revolution was the first act of a farce that destroyed Chinese culture, then the subsequent "resumption of classes and revolution" was the second act of a farce that destroyed schools.

Han Erniang said to Chai Jianhua with great emotion:

In order to clean up the disaster brought about by the "suspension of classes and revolution" in school education, it was not until October 14, 1967 that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, the Central Military Commission, and the Central Cultural Revolution jointly issued the "On the Resumption of Classes in Universities, Middle Schools and Primary Schools to Cause Revolution". "Notice", requiring colleges, middle schools, and primary schools to follow Mao Zedong's great strategic plan, "Resume classes and start revolution." The notice requires that "universities, middle schools, and primary schools across the country all start school immediately" and "reform while teaching."

Han Erniang was a middle school teacher at the time, and she clearly remembered the "Notice on the Resumption of Classes and Revolution in Universities, Middle and Elementary Schools" posted everywhere in the school, and the "Notice on the Resumption of Classes in Universities, Middle and Elementary Schools and a Revolution" was constantly broadcast on the radio. "full text:

 

Notice on the Resumption of Classes in Universities, Middle Schools and Elementary Schools

Zhongfa [67] No. 316

October 14, 1967

Issuing agencies: Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, State Council, Central Military Commission, Central Cultural Revolution

The revolutionary committees (preparatory groups) and military control committees of all provinces, cities, and autonomous regions, major military regions, provincial military regions, and transfer to mass organizations:

 

(1) Universities, middle schools, and primary schools all over the country will start school immediately.

(2) All schools must conscientiously implement Chairman Mao's instructions on fighting against private interests and criticizing revisions.

(3) All universities, middle schools and primary schools carry out reform while teaching. In the practice of teaching, implement Chairman Mao's educational revolutionary thought, and gradually propose a revolutionary plan for the teaching system and teaching content.

(4) All schools should follow Chairman Mao's instructions of March 7, 1967, and realize the great revolutionary alliance and establish the revolutionary three-in-one system under the principle of revolution and in accordance with the teaching system of classes, grades, and departments. leadership team.

(5) Most of the teachers and cadres in the schools are good or relatively good. Except for landlords, rich, counter-revolutionaries, bad actors, and rightists, some people have made mistakes in the past. As long as they can recognize their mistakes and correct them, they should be allowed to stand up and work.

(6) All primary, middle and primary schools must immediately and actively prepare for enrollment.

 

(This is posted in each school)

 

Han Erniang said to Chai Jianhua:

I remember that after the notice of "resuming classes for revolution" was issued, we teachers and the principal of the middle school stood at the school gate to welcome the students returning to school for "resuming classes for revolution". The scene in front of me made me deeply moved. Although the class was suspended for a year and a half, the students still grew tall, and the boys still grew hairy beards. However, during the past year and a half, the mental outlook of the students has changed drastically. The previously polite students have become carefree "unscrupulous".

Several students pretended not to see the principal, but sang this jingle, challenging his status as "principal":

 

Who farts, register;

Play it loud, be the principal;

It stinks, being a professor...

 

After singing, Mie squinted her eyes to see the reaction of the "principal". This jingle was sung to him by these different students, and that jingle was quite popular at the time.

Han Erniang said: Sadly, although the notice of "resuming classes to cause revolution" was issued, "classes" were delayed. It’s not that students don’t go to school, but after they arrive at school, the teacher’s only “course” is to let students study “Quotations from Chairman Mao” for a while, which is called “reading every day”, and then “herding sheep” after reading. After "herding the sheep", the students would fight for a while, in groups of three, or in groups of five, and Chengbang went away in groups.

As time goes on, many students no longer come to participate in "Daily Reading". Sometimes, even only one student in the whole class comes to class.

When "resuming classes to cause revolution", students are still like wild horses, refusing to go back to class. Once when I was in class, there was only one student sitting in the classroom, and I could only stand on the podium as before and finish the class for this student.

It is difficult for the school to maintain the normal teaching order due to the long-term lack of teaching materials for the "resumption of classes and revolution". The classroom order is chaotic. When I was teaching students, I just turned around and wrote on the blackboard. The "darts" flew to the podium together, and some shot right at the back of my head.

Han Erniang said: Originally, the school set up two foreign language classes, English and foreign language. Because of opposing revisionism and overthrowing Soviet revisionist social imperialism, the school stopped teaching Russian. Only English class left. Due to the "suspension of classes to cause a revolution", there is no unified textbook in the school, and there is no systematic arrangement of subjects. When "resuming classes", the teacher taught English without textbooks for a few days, and the first sentence he taught was: "Lang Lang is here, and you are so beautiful." This is how students memorized words at that time. However, within a few days, the teaching was stopped because learning English was "worshiping foreigners".

Han Erniang sighed: During the precious learning stage of life, how many young people have lost the opportunity to go to school. It is ridiculous that some experts are revived the Cultural Revolution, and some people openly suggested that in order to resist the invasion of Western culture, English courses should be abolished.

Han Erniang recalled that in order to "resume classes", some schools set up "Resume Classes and Revolutionary Offices", but students who were used to rebellion did not miss the "Resume Classes and Revolutionary Offices". Almost a lot of new students didn't even read the book for a day. Is it possible to let them hang around like this? As a teacher, I am very disappointed. What teacher in the world would like to see his students become blind?

Chai Jianhua asked Han Erniang: "Resuming classes to start a revolution" should be a good thing. Why can't students return to class successfully?

Han Erniang: Looking back on those past events, the real situation of the so-called "Resumption of Classes and Revolution" is that although the notice of "Resumption of Classes and Revolution" was issued, the request for students to return to school has twists and turns. There are many reasons for this:

From the perspective of students, they have been used to fighting, wandering, and idleness for a year and a half. Their hearts have long been wild, and it is not easy for them to return to class;

In terms of the teaching environment, the school is dilapidated. There are no complete tables, chairs, blackboards, doors and windows. The old clean order is gone, and it is impossible to form a learning atmosphere;

From the perspective of principals and teachers, they have not yet overcome the terror of "Bloody Red August" and are afraid of rebellion by students. They dare not discipline students, and students do not obey their discipline;

The most important reason is that the previous textbooks were criticized as "counter-revolutionary revisionism", and it was suddenly announced that "resume classes to cause revolution". The "theory" about the Great Cultural Revolution of the Proletarian Dictatorship lacks intellectual content and is not attractive to students. In my opinion, what is more important is that Lao Mao does not allow students to receive school education at all. He said something like "the more knowledge, the more reactionary". It was under his instigation that the nationwide publicity turned out to be Huang Shuai, a primary school student who dared to "go against the trend", and Zhang Tiesheng, a college student who "handed in a blank paper".

Han Erniang said to Chai Jianhua: In order to reverse the chaotic situation in the school, the "Workers Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team" has entered the school. In all fairness, this really did a lot to change the mess. After the "worker propaganda team" entered the school, teachers and students returned to the school one after another under the call of "resuming classes and making revolution". But the textbooks were all burned, and the students had nothing to read. The doors and windows of the classroom are riddled with holes, and the classroom is noisy. The little rebels were wild and untamed, and the teachers were trembling with fear. They only got their wages for dawdling, lest they accidentally offend the students and be pasted with a few big-character posters.

After the "Worker Propaganda Team" entered the school, the rebellious spirit of the students was restrained. The worker propaganda teams from these factories each hold a book of quotations from Chairman Mao. They have a strong temper and great strength. When encountering mischievous students, they kick their big leather shoes on their buttocks and slap them with a big slap. .

The "Working Propaganda Team" at that time had a catchphrase called "the fists of the working class are not vegetarian". In front of the "fists of the working class" who were "non-vegetarian", the students who were the most rebellious at the time also understood the truth that "a good man does not suffer immediate losses". . Especially after the "Worker Propaganda Team" announced that they would arrest "bad elements who sabotage the resumption of classes and cause revolution" in the school, it was like pouring a bucket of cold water into a boiling water pot, and the school that had been in trouble suddenly became silent. The students who beat, scolded, and insulted teachers a year ago became submissive in the face of the violence of the workers' propaganda team, and their arrogance was wiped out, replaced by obedience and even flattery.

Han Erniang said to Chai Jianhua: Don't think that the "Worker Propaganda Team" stationed in the school is to restore teaching and let students learn new knowledge seriously. The workers' propaganda team entered the school, and the troublesome students didn't dare to mess around anymore, and the discipline improved significantly. However, this is not a "resumption of classes" in the true sense.

The school after the resumption of classes is more like a factory, a farm, or a military camp. Teachers have to drag students to learn engineering, agriculture, and army, to the workshop to swing a sledgehammer, to turn on the machine tool; to plant seedlings and cut crops in the farmland; Teachers are not told that the important mission of students is to learn first, and that they should go to the temple of knowledge.

Schools have no teaching materials, teachers have no ideas, and students have no self-awareness. Violence and servility turned out to be twin brothers. During the Cultural Revolution, "suspension of classes to cause revolution" and "resumption of classes to cause revolution" were a rare farce of destroying schools in human history. "Violence" and "slavery" education are twin brothers, two demons that destroy Chinese culture.

In this cultural and educational farce, the first act is "suspending classes to cause revolution", and the second act is "resuming classes to cause revolution". The dictators during the Cultural Revolution provided the best stage for this political farce to be fully performed.