A Study On The Crash Middle School Of Workers And Peasants In The Early Days Of New China

Education is an important part of the social construction and social management that be engaged in theChinese Communists. To some extent, Education even decides the development of the national economicand political. Therefore, the Chinese Communists pay more attention to the development of education. Inthe early days of New China, the Chinese Communists carried out the policy that education opens the doorto workers and peasants. At that time, education took the workers and peasants as the main teaching object.Therefore, the government established various types of schools, which included the crash middle school ofworkers and peasants. The target of these schools is to select the excellent cadres and workers and makethem into the school having off-job learning, so that they can learn the middle school curriculum in a shorttime, and eventually go to the college for further study.The foundation of the crash middle school of workers and peasants came down to many profoundreasons, which included historical reasons and practical reasons. Since it was established, the ChineseCommunists has always attached great importance to the education of workers and peasants andaccumulates abundant education experience of workers and peasants in the long-term practice of theChinese revolution, which included literacy movement and in the ten years of civil war and the Dong Xueeducation in the Anti-Japanese War. The foundation of the crash middle school of workers and peasants wasalso based on the needs of the Times. At that time, the New China is carrying out the social construction,which needs large quantities of talents. And, the workers and peasants are eager for the knowledge. Inaddition, learning the Soviet Union experience inspired the Chinese Communists establishing the specialschool for the workers and peasants. The course of the crash middle school of workers and peasantsconsists of the produce stage, the develop stage and the end stage. From the first crash middle school ofworkers and peasants was established in Beijing in1950to the last classes graduated in1958, it accountsfor a small part in the party’s history. However, it was a great explore in the history of the ChineseCommunists. The purpose of the crash middle school of workers and peasants was admitted a group ofworkers and peasants, which were experienced the revolution exercises, to teach them with the knowledgeof high school. Therefore, the crash middle school of workers and peasants had its unique properties and characteristics. As a special talents training way, it has its own unique, including management mechanismand teaching mechanism, which including the specific performance leadership ownership, financial support,teacher, student enrollment work, the teaching materials, teaching method and so on.The crash middle school of workers and peasants had obtained some achievements, which includedtraining a lot of talent for the national construction, providing an valuable teaching model for the Chineseeducation, consolidating the people’s democratic dictatorship and creating the spirit of the crash middleschool of workers and peasants. At the same time, the crash middle school of workers and peasants had itsdisadvantages, which included that the local government did not pay attention to, that the students hashealth problems. This paper is aimed for summing up the experience of the crash middle school of workersand peasants to provide the reference for the education of this day.