Primary and Secondary Education Should be Geared to the Needs of All Students

It has been thirteen days since the National Forum on Ideological and Political Education in Primary and Secondary Schools convened on April 23. It will come to a close the day after tomorrow. The first conference of its kind held since the smashing of the "Gang of Four," the forum means to manifest the spirit of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's talk given at the March 30 meeting held to discuss the guidelines for the Party's theoretical work and to impel primary and secondary schools to strengthen their ideological and political work among the students so as to further elevate the quality of education and meet the need to shift the focus of the Party's work as a whole. Now I want to offer the following opinions: First, education must be geared to the needs of all students.