The Environmental Education Outline and the Environmental Education Magazine

The students of Lenin primary schools are the children of impoverished workers and farmers; they have undergone lives of great hardship and have personally witnessed the oppression and destruction of their fathers and brothers under the pressure of debts and rent-collection by powerful local gentry and landlords. In these circumstances their thoughts have been constantly preoccupied with the need for clothing to wear, food to eat, a place to live, freedom, and books to read. When instructing them, teachers should pay special attention to these pressing needs and should make use of the students' feelings in studying such questions as how it is that we suffer poverty and hardship and why the local gentry and landlords enjoy such fortune though they do not work. Through this kind of study, the students should be brought naturally to an understanding of the fact that in society there are two absolutely dissimilar classes - one being the capitalist class and the other the proletariat. The capitalist class is the exploiting class, and the proletariat class is the exploited class. When the students have learned that they themselves are of the proletariat, the exploited and oppressed class, then various methods should be used to teach them how to attack the capitalist class, how to relieve their own distress. In this way consolidate their class consciousness and establish their determination for class struggle.