At present, there are different understandings of what reeducation through labor is. The person in charge of the Teaching Materials Bureau of the Ministry of Education pointed out that the phenomenon of light labor is mainly manifested in the contempt for manual labor, especially for ordinary workers. The "Guiding Outline" reiterated the requirement of "focusing on manual labor and paying attention to the use of both hands and brains" put forward in the Opinions, and further clarified the connotation and characteristics of labor education.
It is pointed out that "labor education is to give full play to the educational function of labor and carry out educational activities for students and working people who love labor".
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Productive labor is the basis for the survival and development of human society and the most basic practical activity of human beings. In primitive society, everyone had to work to survive. In class society, manual labor and mental labor are separated and opposed, and the exploiting class regards manual workers as the object of exploitation and oppression.
In socialist China, public ownership of the means of production has been realized, and exploitation and oppression have been eliminated. Working people are the masters of their own affairs, and labor is the glorious obligation of every citizen. Distribution according to work is the basic principle of socialism. Every citizen should work hard and contribute to socialist modernization.