President
"Though the situation was difficult after liberation, we have set up the University and many colleges, thus opening the road to learning for the sons and daughters of the working people."
Soon after the liberation, setting up a university was the vital issue for our new Korea's destiny.
When we look back upon the efforts and warm love of the president who devoted his all to the foundation of
Due to the decades-long colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists, the soul of our excellent nation was tarnished and even the basic facilities of modern education were not available. The situation of our education was heartbreaking reality for our people.
The viciousness of colonial enslavement education imposed by the Japanese imperialists on our people was clearly known by the fact that the number of ordinary schools in our country was smaller than that in the smallest prefecture of Japan.
What was most difficult in the preparation for the establishment of the university at that time was how to set the academic criteria of a freshman.
Due to the characteristic and mission of the university, it had to accept lots of sons and daughters of workers and peasants who were unable to realize their dream of learning under Japanese imperialist exploitation and oppression in the past but most of them were not prepared to receive high education because they couldn't manage to receive education properly.
One day in May Juche 35(1946), the president personally called the officials of the preparatory committee and indicated the clear orientation and ways for building up the ranks of students of the university.
The president instructed how to set the level of candidates for entrance saying that scholastic ability must not be the yardstick for entrance because sons and daughters of workers and peasants had never dreamed of going to school although they really wanted and in that condition, they would be unable to go to university if scholastic ability was a prerequisite for university enrollment.
He continued that we should enroll sons and daughters of workers and peasants, who could not study due to the aftereffects of colonial rule by the Japanese imperialists and we should organize a preparatory course for those who had no basic knowledge, during which they acquire general knowledge of middle school level, adding that then we could enroll sons and daughters of workers and peasants as students.
Later, the president clarified the importance of organizing a preparatory course and some issues for realizing it in detail.
The president said that the preparatory course should include children of revolutionary martyrs and sons and daughters of workers and peasants, who failed to receive education in the past and the capable people who were recommended by the institutions of the Party, administration and social organizations and those who were enthusiastic for learning although they were old and their standard of knowledge was low.
His idea shows the noble intention to raise up the generations to be reliable people who can carry forward our revolutionary cause.
Then the president said although the freshmen of preparatory course are a little old for education, we shouldn't blame it and the standard of choosing the freshmen should be neither scholarship nor age.
Under the warm care of the president,
