I was so relieved when the Cultural Revolution began. I just threw the exam results down the toilet and wrote the editorial

Like all my classmates, Future had been a Red Guard. In 1966, he formed a faction of two at his high school in Beijing and mimeographed his own newspaper. "Exams are a reactionary, bourgeois tool," he thundered in his maiden editorial. His instincts were purely pragmatic. "I had failed math and was afraid to show my marks to my father," he explained to me. "I was so relieved when the Cultural Revolution began. I just threw the exam results down the toilet and wrote the editorial."

J. Wong, Red China Blues (1996), 143