The Immortal Steps Remarkable on the Way of Developing the Education of the Country

 2021.12.8.

Education is one of the key issues that is decisive of the prosperity or ruin of the country and the destiny of the nation's future, and it is also an important requirement for bringing up people to be mighty social beings, and for promoting social development as well. Carrying forward the cause of the working class, the revolutionary cause of Juche, largely depends on the education of the people responsible for accomplishing the cause, too.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un taught us that education is the mother of science in his talk "Teachers Should Fulfil Their Mission as Career Revolutionaries in Implementing the Party's Policy of Bringing about a Revolution in Education" with senior officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea on August 22nd, Juche 108(2019), and again in the historic Fifth Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Science and technology is the unlimited strategic assets we should rely on in the struggle for making a breakthrough head-on, which our Party has set forward.

Today the hostile forces are maneuvering viciously to gradually exhaust and weaken our country, desperately depending on sanctions and blockades against our country. We must even more strengthen our internal force in all spheres with the fact as a fait accompli that we have to live on in the sanctions of the hostile forces.

The more we strengthen our own strength by dint of prosperity, self-reliance, and the more we create valuable assets of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, the earlier comes the day of failure of the enemy's sanctions and pressure and the day of victory of socialism. And to this end, science and technology, the engine to encourage economic development of the country, should energetically rush ahead in front. The scientists and technicians must open up the way of advance in the scientific front and in the period with many difficulties in economy like today and science and technology must play the role of a lamp to light up the way forward and lead the development properly.

Whether the scientists and technicians perform their role in the struggle to make a breakthrough head-on or not entirely depends on whether education plays its role or not.

President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il always directed a primary attention to the development of our socialist education and dedicated their all to it.

Even in the difficult and complicated situation after the liberation, President Kim Il Sung regarded education and training of national cadres as the foremost important state affairs related to the destiny of the country and nation, and established Kim Il Sung University and clearly indicated the way for the education at every stage of the developing revolution. Chairman Kim Jong Il further developed and enriched the socialist pedagogy founded by President Kim Il Sung for the first time in history and wisely led the education into a revolutionary education of Juche both in name and reality.

It is the steadfast will of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to glorify the Juche-oriented idea on education and leadership exploits of the great leaders and usher in a golden era in the development of socialist education.

At the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un unfolded a far-reaching plan for turning ours into a country of education, a country of scientific and technological talents. At the Third Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, he set forth the strategic slogan "Let Us Make a Leap forward by Dint of Science and Guarantee the Future by Dint of Education" and made public the immortal classic work "Let Us Glorify Ours as the Country of Education and a Power of Talents by Bringing about a Revolution in Education in the New Century". And he clarified the immortal guidelines for the grand educational revolution to bring about a radical development in the general education throughout the country.

Under the wise leadership of our Party, our scientists and technicians have finished the postwar reconstruction successfully, despite of the enemies' propaganda that "Korea cannot be able to stand up on its own again even in 100 years' time", with all of the people's efforts and creative ingenuity, and accomplished the historic cause of the socialist industrialization successfully within a short period.

Nowadays our country is achieving eye-opening successes striking the world with wonder and demonstrating its might to the whole world as an invincible socialist state. All these events are inconceivable without the well-qualified scientists and technical workers who have grown up under the Party's care and the development of the science and technology which is associated with the scientist's laborious scientific investigation.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"It is important to create a climate of giving top priority to education throughout the country and bring about a radical improvement in education in our own way so as to overtake the educational level of the developed countries."

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un has set forward the task and ways to improve our education in accordance with the era of the educational revolution at the historic Fifth Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

We, the educational workers, were brought up by the great leaders, and are now developing under the endless love and trust of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

So struggling to ensure the advance of science and technology which should lead the economic development with whatever any little help we can is the natural duty and obligation of our revolutionary soldiers rather than their responsibility and this ensures that our educators lead a genuine life of devotion and patriotism for the socialist motherland.

The Korean people can overcome every obstacle and difficulty and no one in the world can block advance of the Korean people as they are united single-heartedly, around the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who is wisely leading the struggle to make a breakthrough head-on.