Essentials of Education

• The intellectuals will accomplish nothing if they fail to integrate themselves with the workers and peasants.
• The educational policy must cultivate a firm and correct political orientation, an industrious and simple style of work, and flexible strategy and tactics. 
• Educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousness and culture.
• Students and intellectuals should study their specialized subjects and must make progress both ideologically and politically, which means that they should study current events and politics. 
• Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.
• People have to learn while teaching while serving as teachers. 
• To be a good teacher, one must first be a good pupil. 
• There are many things which cannot be learned from books alone; one must learn from those engaged in production, from the workers, from the poor and lower middle peasants etc.
• Education must serve proletarian politics and must be combined with productive labour. 
• The working people should master knowledge and the intellectuals should become habituated to manual labour.
• Destruction means criticism and repudiation. It involves reasoning things out, which is construction. There is no construction without destruction.
• While students main task is to study, they should in addition to their studies, participate in other things like industrial work, farming and military affairs. 
• The domination of schools by bourgeois intellectuals should by no means be allowed to continue.