我们的教育方针，应该使受教育者在德育、智育、体育几方面都得到发展，成为有社会主义觉悟的有文化的劳动者。
——《关于正确处理人民内部矛盾的问题》（一九五七年二月二十七日），人民出版社版第二三页
Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousness and culture.
― "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People" (February 27, 1959), 1st pocket ed., p. 44.

对于在职干部的教育和干部学校的教育，应确立以研究中国革命实际问题为中心，以马克思列宁主义基本原则为指导的方针，废除静止地孤立地研究马克思列宁主义的方法。
——《改造我们的学习》（一九四一年五月），《毛泽东选集》第三卷第八零三页
As for education for cadres whether at work or in schools for cadres, a policy should be established of focusing such education on the study of the practical problems of the Chinese revolution and using the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism as the guide, and the method of studying Marxism-Leninism statically and in isolation should be discarded.
― "Reform Our Study" (May 1941), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 24.

一个军事学校，最重要的问题，是选择校长教员和规定教育方针。
——《中国革命战争的战略问题》（一九三六年十二月），《毛泽东选集》第一卷第一七零页
For a military school, the most important question is the selection of a director and instructors and the adoption of an educational policy.
― "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War" (December 1936), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 185.*

一个百人的学校，如果没有一个从教员中、职员中、学生中按照实际形成的（不是勉强凑集的）最积极最正派最机敏的几个人乃至十几个人的领导骨干，这个学校就一定办不好。
——《关于领导方法的若干问题》（一九四三年六月一日），《毛泽东选集》第三卷第九零一页
A school of a hundred people certainly cannot be run well if it does not have a leading group of several people, or a dozen or more, which is formed in accordance with the actual circumstances (and not thrown together artificially) and is composed of the most active, upright and alert of the teachers, the other staff and the students.
― "Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership" (June 1, 1943), Selected Works, Vol. III, pp. 118-l9.

我全军将士必须提高军事艺术，在必胜的战争中勇猛前进，坚决彻底干净全部地歼灭一切敌人。
——《中国人民解放军宣言》（一九四七年十月），《毛泽东选集》第四卷第一二三九页
All officers and fighters of our army must improve their military art, march forward courageously towards certain victory in the war and resolutely, thoroughly, wholly and completely wipe out all enemies.
― "Manifesto of the Chinese People's Liberation Army" (October 1947), Selected Military Writings, 2nd ed., p. 340.

目前开始的一年整训计划，军事整训与政治整训应该并重，并使二者互相结合。整训开始时，还应着重政治方面，着重于改善官兵关系，增强内部团结，发动干部与战士群众的高度积极性，军事整训才易于实施与更有效果。
——《一九四五年的任务》（一九四四年十二月十五日），一九四四年十二月十六日延安《解放日报》
Equal importance should be attached to the military and political aspects of the one-year consolidation and training programme which has just begun, and the two aspects should be integrated. At the start, stress should be placed on the political aspect, on improving relations between officers and men, enhancing internal unity and arousing a high level of enthusiasm among the masses of cadres and fighters. Only thus will the military consolidation and training proceed smoothly and attain better results.
― "The Tasks for 1945" (December 15, 1944).

练兵方法，应开展官教兵、兵教官、兵教兵的群众练兵运动。
——《一九四六年解放区工作的方针》（一九四五年十二月十五日），《毛泽东选集》第四卷第一一七二页
As for the method of training, we should unfold the mass training movement in which officers teach soldiers, soldiers teach officers and the soldiers teach each other.
― "Policy for Work in the Liberated Areas for 1946" (December 15, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 76.

我们练兵的口号是：“官教兵，兵教官，兵教兵。”战士们有很多打仗的实际经验。当官的要向战士学习，把别人的经验变成自己的，他的本领就大了。
——《对晋绥日报编辑人员的谈话》（一九四入年四月二日），《毛泽东选集》第四卷第一三一九页
Our slogan in training troops is, "Officers teach soldiers, soldiers teach officers and soldiers teach each other". The fighters have a lot of practical combat experience. The officers should learn from the fighters, and when they have made other people's experience their own, they will become more capable.
― "A Talk to the Editorial Staff of the Shansi-Suiyuan Daily" (April 2, 1948), Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 243.

练兵项目，仍以提高射击、刺杀、投弹等项技术程度为主，提高战术程度为辅，特别着重于练习夜战。
——《一九四六年解放区工作的方针政策》（一九四五年十二月十五日），《毛泽东选集》第四卷第一一七二页
As for the training courses, the main objective should still be to raise the level of technique in marksmanship, bayoneting grenade-throwing and the like and the secondary objective should be to raise the level of tactics, while special emphasis should be laid on night operations.
― "Policy for Work in the Liberated Areas for 1946" (December 15, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 76.*