Beyond primary education, technical courses were taught in factories to students who were drawn from the favoured "base people". There was a general reluctance to increase people's education in Democratic Kampuchea, and in some districts, cadres were known to kill people who boasted about their educational accomplishments, and it was considered bad form for people to allude to any special technical training. Based on a speech which Pol Pot made in 1978, it appears that he may have ultimately envisaged that illiterate students with approved poor peasant backgrounds could become trained engineers within ten years by doing a lot of targeted studying along with a lot of practical work.
beyond primary education technical courses were taught in factories to students who were drawn from the favoured "base people" there was a general reluctance to increase people's education in democratic kampuchea and in some districts cadres were known to kill people who boasted about their educational accomplishments and it was considered bad form for people to allude to any special technical training based on a speech which pol pot made in 1978 it appears that he may have ultimately envisaged that illiterate students with approved poor peasant backgrounds could become trained engineers within ten years by doing a lot of targeted studying along with a lot of practical work