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What is reeducation through labor?
"The current neglect of labor is mainly manifested in the contempt for manual labor, especially for ordinary workers." The person in charge of the Teaching Materials Bureau of the Ministry of Education said that the guiding outline reiterated the requirement of "focusing on manual labor and paying attention to using hands and brains" put forward in the Opinions, further clarified the connotation and characteristics of labor education, and 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".

The person in charge pointed out that labor education has three basic characteristics: first, it is distinctive ideological, emphasizing that workers are the masters of the country, and all workers and laborers should be encouraged and respected, and opposing all the wrong ideas of getting something for nothing, advocating getting rich and coveting pleasure; The second is to highlight sociality, and to guide students to the society, to know the society, to enhance their sense of responsibility, and to understand the new equal and harmonious labor relations in socialist society; Third, it is obviously practical, with hands-on practice as the main way to guide students to learn to build the world and shape themselves on the basis of understanding the world, so as to achieve the purpose of cultivating sentiment, increasing wisdom, strengthening physical fitness and educating beauty.

What should be taught in labor education?

The guiding outline stipulates that the contents of labor education mainly include three aspects: daily life labor education, productive labor education and service labor education. Among them, daily life labor education should let students deal with personal affairs, cultivate good living habits and health habits, and strengthen their sense of self-reliance; Productive labor education should let students experience the process of creating material wealth in industrial and agricultural production, enhance product quality awareness and experience the greatness in ordinary labor; Service labor education should focus on making students use the knowledge and skills they have learned to serve others and society and enhance their sense of social responsibility.

The "Guiding Outline" emphasizes that the mode of labor education should pay attention to the combination of in-class and out-of-class activities, and at the same time arrange labor practice in extracurricular activities. Working hours in extracurricular activities and family life in primary and secondary schools, 1-2 grade is not less than 2 hours, and other grades are not less than 3 hours; Vocational colleges and universities should clarify the labor matters and time in life and bring them into the daily management of students.

Universities, middle schools and primary schools set up a labor week every academic year, which is carried out in the form of special lectures, keynote speeches, labor skill competitions, labor achievements display and labor project practice. Primary schools are mainly on campus, and senior primary schools can arrange some off-campus labor appropriately; Ordinary middle schools, vocational colleges and ordinary institutions of higher learning can take care of both inside and outside the school, and can arrange it during the school year or during the winter and summer vacations, with collective labor as the main task and organized and implemented by the school. Colleges and universities can also arrange labor months to focus on the implementation of the requirements of labor week in each academic year.

How to teach labor education?

The person in charge of the Teaching Materials Bureau of the Ministry of Education pointed out that there are problems of education without labor and labor without education in schools at present. The Guiding Outline defines the ways of labor education from four aspects: setting up compulsory labor education courses independently, organically infiltrating labor education into disciplines and majors, arranging labor practice in extracurricular activities, and strengthening labor culture in campus cultural construction. In particular, it puts forward specific requirements for compulsory labor education courses, extracurricular labor practice time and annual labor week, and integrates labor education into the whole process of talent training to effectively solve the problem of education without labor.

At the same time, labor education is not simply to let students sweep the floor and do housework. The "Guiding Outline" strengthens the specific guidance on labor education methods around key links such as explanation, detailed operation, project practice, reflection and exchange, and example demonstration. It requires organizing students to participate in labor practice to educate students to love labor and working people, thus effectively solving the labor problem without education.

The "Guiding Outline" requires that labor literacy should be included in the evaluation system of students' comprehensive quality. Establish a good faith mechanism, implement a spot check system of factual records, and veto those who practice fraud by one vote in the first evaluation. If the nature is serious, it should be dealt with severely according to the law and regulations. Volunteer star certification in high schools and universities. High schools and institutions of higher learning should take the assessment results as one of the graduation basis. The comprehensive evaluation results during the period of promoting study serve as an important reference for students' further studies and employment.