dialectics

I did it, or the landlord might have profited from it.
Today we work for the revolution and I'll tell you everything
I know." He gave us more than fifty pointers in
weather forecasting.
With the poor and lower-middle peasants as our
teachers we got 340 pointers, including a lot of common
sense summed up in folk sayings. We learned how the
peasants interpret sky conditions, such as a foggy morning
turning into a sunny day, and also forecasting from insect
movements. We learned to watch for ants moving their
hills, worms coming up out of the earth, and dragonflies
flying low. By using the peasants' experience in combination
with our book knowledge, we increased the accuracy
of our forecasting considerably, which in turn increased
our confidence in and reliance on the masses. We set up
eight forecasting groups of experienced peasants in the
county, and made a practice of asking their advice in our
work.
Studying the Laws of Weather Changes
We further applied Chairman Mao's teaching about
"discarding the dross and selecting the essential, eliminating
the false and retaining the true, proceeding from the
one to the other and from the outside to the inside,"
and put our knowledge into practice, summed up experience,
made analyses in the light of Chairman Mao's
philosophic concepts, and formulated theories. We found
our forecasting was further facilitated.
For example, beginning on May 15, 1969, there was
moderate rain over the county for three days running,
followed by warm days and cold nights. We checked our
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