有计划有步骤地开展农民业余教育,提高农民的文化水平,是当前我国文化建设上的重大任务之一。二十余年来,在老解放区曾进行了多种形式的农民业余教育,对提高农民政治觉悟,完成各种对敌斗争任务,起过伟大的作用。但由于长期处于战争环境,在提高农民的文化水平方面,成绩还不很大。现在国家已经统一,农民业余教育亟应加强,以适应政治经济文化各方面发展的需要。为此特作下列的指示:一、农民业余教育一般地应以识字学文化为主,配合时事、政策教育和生产、卫生教育。但各地区的情况不同,农民觉悟程度亦有差异;因此 To carry out amateur education for peasants in a planned and step-by-step manner and to raise the peasants’ cultural level is one of the major tasks for our country’s cultural construction. In the past two decades or so, various forms of amateur education for peasants have been carried out in the old liberated areas. They have played a great role in raising the political awareness of peasants and in fulfilling various tasks of fighting against the enemy. However, due to being in a war environment for a long period of time, the achievements have not been great in raising the cultural level of farmers. Now that the country has been unified, it is imperative for peasants to further their education in order to meet the needs of all aspects of political, economic and cultural development. To this end, special instructions for the following: First, amateur education of peasants should generally literacy culture, with current affairs, policy education and production, health education. However, the situation varies from region to region and the level of enlightenment from farmers varies