Impact of the Great Leap Forward on Education

Question 1

1. What was launched in 1958?
   - What did it criticise?
2. What was brought into the curriculum, in order to increase what?
3. Introduced a half ____ half ____ curriculum.
4. How many schools were there in 1960?
   - How many per commune?
   - How many students?

Answer 1

1. Directive on Education Work.
   - Bourgeois ideas about education.
2. Manual labour brought into the curriculum to increase economic power.
3. Half work half study.
4. 30,000.
   - One.
   - 3 million.

Question 2

1. Why were students unable to attend school during GLF?
2. What was set in May 1959?
3. Who became the new elite?

Answer 2

1. Working on backyard furnaces.
2. Strict controls on the curriculum.
3. Children of party cadres.