May 19, 1941: Mao Zedong makes a report entitled "Reform Our Way of Learning"
Mao Zedong made a report entitled "Reform Our Way of Learning" at the senior cadres' meeting in Yan'an on May 19, 1941. He deeply criticized the bad style of subjectivism in education and called on the Party to establish the Marxist style that integrates theory with practice and seeks truth from facts.
Zhu De, born in Yilong County of Sichuan Province in 1886 and passed away in 1976, is a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, statesman and military strategist.
A native of Le Zhi, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and awarded by the People's Republic of China the military rank of marshal; Served as the country's Vice Premier (1954-1972) and Foreign Minister (1958-1972)