Some Quotes from Mao's Little Red Book

Chapter 16 --- Education and the Training of Troops

Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousness and culture.

For a military school, the most important question is the selection of a director and instructors and the adoption of an educational policy.

Our slogan in training troops is, "Officers teach soldiers, soldiers teach officers and soldiers teach each other." The fighters have a lot of practical combat experience. The officers should learn from the fighter, and when they have made other people's experience their own, they will become more capable.

As for the training courses, the main objective should be to raise the level of technique in marksmanship, bayoneting, grenade-throwing and the like and the secondary objective should be to raise the level of tactics, while special emphasis should be laid on night operations.