毛泽东同志非常重视发挥人民教师在革命和建设中的重要作用。他在1925年《中国社会各阶级的分析》一文中,就明确地把旧中国属于小资产阶级的“中小学教员”看作是无产阶级的“最接近的朋友”,是革命的依靠力量。1939年他在《大量吸收知识分子》一文中指出:“在长期的和残酷的民族解放战争中,在建立新中国的伟大斗争中, Comrade Mao Zedong attaches great importance to giving full play to the important role of people's teachers in the revolution and construction. In his article “An Analysis of All Social Classes in China” in 1925, he explicitly defined “primary and secondary school teachers belonging to the petty bourgeoisie in old China as the” closest friend “to the proletariat and the strength to rely on by the revolution. In his article ”Massively Enriching Intellectuals“ in 1939, he pointed out: ”In the long and brutal national liberation war and in the great struggle to establish a new China,