1. A day of hard work will lead to a night of peaceful sleep; a lifetime of hard work will lead to a long sleep of happiness. ——Leonardo da Vinci

2. The significance of work-study is that it can cultivate and develop the creativity and talents of young people. If we arrange an easy path for young people, they only need to eat to open their mouths and study in class without caring about anything else. In this way, we will harm the young people and turn smart people into fools. ——Xu Teli

3. No matter how hard you work, you will gain a lot. To harvest well, you must cultivate well. ——Xu Teli

4. When labor is a joy, life is beautiful; when labor is a responsibility, life is slavery. ——Gorky

5. Labor can free us from three major disasters: loneliness, bad habits, and poverty. ——Goethe

6. The future will belong to two kinds of people: thinking people and working people. In fact, these two kinds of people are one kind of person, because thinking is also labor. ——Hugo

7. In our society, labor is not only an economic category, but also a moral category. ——Makarenko

8. The greatest benefit of labor lies in moral and spiritual development. This spiritual development is produced by harmonious labor and should constitute the kind of human characteristics that distinguish the citizens of proletarian society from those of bourgeois society. ——Makarenko

9. Labor is respected. Serving society is a highly appreciated moral ideal. ——Dewey

10. Labor is a folk pedagogy with magical power, which has opened up a new source of educational wisdom for us. This source is unknown to book-based educational theory. We firmly believe that only through sweat, calluses and tired people's labor can the human soul become sensitive and gentle. Through labor, talents have the ability to understand the world around them with their souls. ——Suhomlinsky

11. The lofty moral significance of labor also lies in that a person can reflect his wisdom, skills, selfless love for his career and his own interests in the material fruits of labor. The desire to impart experience to comrades.

——Suhomlinsky