[Epoch Times on August 25, 2021](Interviewed by Epoch Times reporter Luo Ya and Zhao Fenghua) At the beginning of the new semester in the fall, the State Education Commission of the Communist Party of China issued a guide to Xi Jinping’s thoughts, requesting that Xi’s thoughts be incorporated into teaching materials of universities, middle schools and elementary schools, which aroused strong attention . Professor Feng Chongyi, an expert on China, said that the use of state power to push Xi Jinping’s thought is a farce. Not only does no one really believe it, but it also disgusts the parents of the students.
On August 24, the National Textbook Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the “Xi Jinping New Era of Socialist Thought with Chinese Characteristics Curriculum Guide”, which promoted 9 “major themed courses” such as “Xi Thought” and “National Security Education” into the classrooms of universities, middle schools and primary schools. Tian Huisheng, director of the Teaching Materials Bureau of the Ministry of Education, clearly stated that students should be trained to “unswervingly listen to and follow the party, and establish the ideals and beliefs to continue the struggle for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.”
Experts on Chinese Issues: Disgusting Parents That Destroy Children’s IQ
Regarding the introduction of Xi Jinping’s thoughts into textbooks for primary and secondary schools, on the 25th, Professor Feng Chongyi, an expert on China at the University of Technology Sydney, said in an interview with this newspaper that forcible brainwashing with national power would not work, and the people just pretended to believe it.
He said: “This is to use the power of a country to push. In fact, there is no atmosphere like the 1950s and 1960s, Mao era, (for example) everyone will respectfully follow blindly at the moment of an order. It’s a post-centralization era, and its fundamental feature is: it’s not to believe these lies, but to pretend to believe. That is, everyone is playing and pretending.”
Professor Feng Chongyi believes that this kind of brainwashing education may destroy the intelligence quotient of children or the people, but now unlike the Mao era, people will not blindly follow the CCP’s propaganda.
He said: “The current social atmosphere is deceiving each other. I know that this is false, and I don’t believe it at all, but I pretend to believe it. So now this, it will destroy the intelligence quotient of children or citizens, and destroy his logical thinking ability, but it also Don’t overestimate its effectiveness.”
Professor Feng Chongyi said that the practice of forcibly pushing thoughts is a farce.
He said: “Nowadays, many people think that Xi Jinping’s actions like this are a farce, and they don’t really take it seriously. Because you look at the Internet now, it’s blocked so badly on the Internet, including WeChat, you post it all day long. A pig head, a lot of these mocking jokes, flying all over the sky. This is completely unimaginable in the Mao era.”
The CCP has cut off students’ extracurricular tutoring in the name of “double reduction.” Especially recently, the Shanghai government has taken the lead in introducing the removal of English test in elementary school textbooks, eliminating English classes, adding ideological and political classes, and then thinking Political education was changed to Xi Jinping Thought. For this kind of deceptive propaganda, Professor Feng Chongyi believes that this is an invitation from Shanghai officials to Xi, but the parents of the students are very disgusted.
He said: “Shanghai is Li Qiang, and there are some “Zhijiang New Army” (Xi Jinping people). Those of his attendants want to take credit and do something, but the Chinese have awakened to a certain extent after all. Like canceling the English education test, A place like Shanghai is a very open place. The parents don’t know how much they will feel that their children will set up a family, make a living, and have a future. English is an indispensable tool for them. And whoever wants to do it If you have a bit of money, you have to sharpen your head and send your children out. They know that Chinese education, especially political education, is a particularly offensive thing.”
Beijing lawyer: “Xi thought” formalism deceives and deceives others
A Beijing lawyer who requested anonymity told the Epoch Times reporter on the 25th that Xi Jinping’s thought has no core and will not have any impact, but it may encourage self-deception.
The Beijing lawyer said: “Xi Jinping’s thoughts are empty. In fact, everyone knows that there is no thought, but he still has to pretend to have thoughts and act on occasions. From top to bottom, it is an emperor’s new costume performance. Being a young man encourages a habit of self-deception.”
Beijing lawyers stated that the strong promotion of ideas in textbooks marked the existence of the CCP’s ideology in name only.
He said: “This kind of thinking will not have any impact, because there is no core, it is just to show loyalty, the so-called formalism, one is a self-deceiver, the other is a deceiver, probably cultivate these two roles, hypocrisy in life In the environment, it will promote the awakening of the people and the great changes in history, the old ideology will exist in name only, and the new spiritual belief culture will emerge.”
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