NEWS AND NOTES # 8 -4-
the world." He expressed his solidarity with Americans fighting
against the opression of Vietnamese as well as Mozambican people.
He sees as essential the work of CFM, raising the consciousness
of the American people about the Mozambican struggle and about the
American institutions which oppose it, and providing direct support
to FRELIMO; we also discussed specific ways in which we can help.
As fighters in the same struggle on different fronts, our meeting
with Samora was characterized by a feeling of comradeship and unity.
"YOU HAVE SUCEEDED IN ESTABLISHING A COMBAT BASE IN THE
UNITED STATES.  SO YOU ARE OUR FIGHTERS."
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"IN CAPITALISM THE MORE EDUCATION ONE GETS, THE MORE
ISOLATED FROM THE PEOPLE HE IS BECAUSE HE IGNORES HIS
ORIGINS.  IN REVOLUTION THE MORE EDUCATION ONE HAS THE
MORE HE MUST BE AWARE OF THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE,
AND MUST BE EVEN MORE LINKED TO HIS ORIGINS...YOU ALL
COME FROM THE PEOPLE, EVEN IF ONE OF YOU HAPPENS TO BE
A PROFESSOR IN A UNIVERSITY YOU MUST NOT FORGET YOUR
ORIGINS.  THIS IS HOW WE EDUCATE, WE TEACH OUR STUDENTS
TO SERVE THE PEOPLE."
Our visit to the FRELIMO Secondary School and Teacher Training
Course at Bagamoyo showed us firsthand how FRELIMO's ideology is
put into practice in its institutions. As we ate lunch (rice and
beans) together, the headmaster, Comrade Mario Sevei, who was a
fighter inside Mozambique until he came to Bagamoyo, explained how
the program of the school is dictated by the needs of the struggle
and of the Mozambican people.  Students understand, he explained,
that they are not privileged, but are engaged in the work of revolution.  Students learn carpentry, agriculture, health education, and
political education - all relevant to the work they will do in Mozambique - in addition to their academic subjects. They spend two to
three months a year inside Mozambique educating the people about
health, helping in cooperative production, transporting educational
materials to one of the primary schools FRELIMO has established,
or working wherever else they might be needed.  Since the need for
educated people is so great in Mozambique, courses are short and
accelerated; students spend 46 hours a week in the classroom.  Just
as revolutionary tasks are shared by all the people inside Mozambique, so do the students at Bagamoyo share the work of the school,
growing food, doing the cooking, making their uniforms, and helping
to build new classrooms.  Teachers are writing textbooks as part of
their work, making educational content relevant to Mozambican life.