在经历了一场严峻的政治斗争,并取得了决定性胜利之后,我们以欣慰的心情迎来了中华人民共和国40周年国庆。回顾我国教育工作走过的道路,联系前不久发生的政治动乱和反革命暴乱,我们有充分的理由强调:基础教育第一位的问题仍然是坚持社会主义的办学方向。教育是根据一定社会(或阶级)的要求,有目的、有计划、有组织地对受教育者的身心施加影响,把他们培养成为一定社会(或阶级)所需要的人的活动。社会主义教育与资本主义教育的 After a serious political struggle and a decisive victory, we welcomed the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China with a happy heart. Recalling the path taken by our education work and the political turmoil and counter-revolutionary riots that took place not long ago, we have every reason to emphasize that the primary issue of basic education remains the socialist direction of running schools. Education is the activity of purposefully, systematically and organizationally influencing the physical and mental health of educated people in accordance with certain social (or class) requirements so that they can be trained as the people needed by a given society (or class). Socialist education and capitalist education