Failures of Educational Reform

Question 1

1. The system remained _______ and __________ despite the changes to education.
2. Who were the children of the new privileged class?
3. Who was left to teaching in villages?

Answer 1

1. Elitist and inequitable.
2. Children of party officials.
3. Barely educated cadres.

Question 2

1. Why were Winter Schools ineffective in improving literacy?

Answer 2

1. Peasants forgot what they had learnt from 1 year to the next.