Monday, 9 January 2012

The Cultural Revolution touched us all

We'll read about the Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards in Wild Swans Chapters 15 and 16. Undoubtedly this is the period in China's history that most people know about in the West.

Read what Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education in the UK, wrote after visiting China in 2010:
'It's become fashionable over the Christmas holidays to refer to the Coalition as a Maoist enterprise. Not so much because the Government is inhabiting the wilder shores of the Left but because of the relentless pace of modernisation being pursued across government.

While the Opposition has nothing to say on any policy, the Government has been responding to the economic and social crises we face with big and comprehensive programmes.

And nowhere has that been more needed than in education, where I am happy to confess I’d like us to implement a cultural revolution just like the one they’ve had in China.' (28.12.10)
Your thoughts, ideas, and observations needed.

2 comments:

  1. Grit15 January 2012 at 18:35

    Squirrel: 'He may as well be saying he wants to knock down all the education and destroy all the schools.'

    Tiger: 'Does he know what he's saying?'

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  2. Grit15 January 2012 at 19:39

    Shark: 'I'd like to smack him round the face'.

    (Still working on peaceful approaches to the resolution of conflict.)

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