Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued "Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening Labor Education in Colleges and Primary Schools in the New Period" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"), which made a systematic design and overall arrangement for comprehensively implementing the Party's educational policy and strengthening labor education in colleges and primary schools. What is the background of the Opinions? How to grasp the basic ideas, strategic tasks and main measures of labor education in primary and secondary schools in the new period? With these questions, the reporter interviewed the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education.
The Opinions clearly pointed out that the focus of implementing labor education is to organize students to participate in daily life labor, productive labor and service labor in a purposeful and planned way, so that students can actually experience hands-on practice, contribute sweat, accept exercise and temper their will. Distinguish between labor education and intellectual education to prevent cultural studies from replacing labor education.
The Opinions emphasize the basic role of family in labor education from four aspects: first, encourage children to participate consciously, do it themselves, work persistently anytime and anywhere, and master 1-2 life skills every year; The second is to encourage children to take advantage of holidays to participate in social labor; The third is to establish a family style that advocates labor, so that children can develop the habit of loving labor from an early age; Fourth, schools, communities, women's federations, etc. Carry out activities to show students' life skills and strengthen family labor education guidance.