Chapter 96 Preface to "Culture Textbook"

(January 17, 1942) A revolutionary cadre must be able to read and write, and have a wealth of social and natural knowledge. He believes that the basis for doing work and the basis for studying theory is the hope of doing a good job and learning the theory well.Without this foundation, it means that they are illiterate, cannot read, cannot write, and their common sense of society and nature is limited to the scope of direct experience. Although such people can do certain jobs, it is impossible to do them well; You can also learn some revolutionary principles, but it is impossible to learn them well.We now have a large number of shrewd and loyal cadres who lack cultural foundation, and there will inevitably be a large number of such cadres in the future. They urgently need to solve the problem of cultural foundation, but the problem of textbooks has not been solved for a long time.Now that the cultural textbooks have been published, this is a great victory, and it is the credit of comrades Kai Feng, Xu Teli, and Fan Wenlan[1].Regardless of the content of the textbook, it is necessary to correct the shortcomings at any time and bring forth the new, but with this textbook, the door to learning culture is opened.The publication of cultural textbooks is the gospel of the vast number of cadres. I believe that our large group of cadres will welcome this textbook with great enthusiasm.

Based on the "Cultural Textbook" published by the second branch of Xinhua Bookstore in 1948. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Kaifeng, that is, He Kaifeng, also known as He Kequan (1906-1955), was born in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, and served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.Xu Teli was the president of Yan'an Academy of Natural Sciences at that time.Fan Wenlan was then the vice president of the Yan'an Academia Sinica and director of the History Research Office.