Re: Chinese CP cuts the crap

["James N. Stewart" <jnstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Saul Thomas <stthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 11:42 PM
Subject: Chinese CP cuts the crap
> Twenty years ago when Zhang Yanxi first began teaching at the Central
Party
> School, the required reading 'Capital' was composed of three large
volumes.
> When stacked up together they were thicker than three bricks.
>
> But today, all that remains of the Party School's 'Capital' textbook is a
> selection of 150 pages, and the curriculum has been greatly reduced.
>

This has such a familiar ring to it.  It is very reminiscent of the American
debates over the devlining standards of education.  The following commentary
on the problem was most illuminating.  Getting the essence is all that
really matters as long as you keep going bqack to the well from which the
essence comes.