Purges In China
Sir, —The best way to explain the educational revolution in China to Western readers who try to See something sinister in everything happening there, is to recount the following. In Central China a large dam has just been completed with a greater capacity than Benmore. When the engineers had completed the plans for the dam, they handed them over to the
workers for their advice, approval, and suggestions. By doing so they not only secured the co-operation of the workers but their enthusiasm for the job. This is a little different from the conditions here, where the worker is regarded as a necessary evil and called a “chippie,” or other such name. The Chinese realise that workers came before engineers, and what they are doing now is to narrow the gap between manual and mental labour. This is what is happening in China, and woe betide any intellectual who would think himself on a different level to the worker.—Yours, etc., P.J.A. June 23, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 12
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