Failures of Reform

Question 1

FAILURES OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM:

• Despite changes, ed. system remained elitist & inequitable.
• Formal academic requirements needed for middle school & uni favoured urban children, and children of new privileged class: party officials.
• Many rural children still didn’t receive education.
• Graduates brought new prestigious roles within party & govt.

Answer 1

• New communist elite replaced old imperial one.
• Teaching in villages left to barely educated cadres.
• Available school places didn’t meet demand.
• Winter schools ineffective in creating literacy: peasants forgot what they learned from 1 yr -> the next.