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Education in DPRK

KCNA

    Pyongyang, September 5 (KCNA) -- September 5 is the 26th anniversary of the "Theses on Socialist Education", a famous work of President Kim Il Sung. He, in the work, gives clear answers to all the questions arising in training of people in a revolutionary way and educational work -- purpose and mission of socialist education, fundamental principles of the socialist pedagogy, contents and methods of education and guidance over the educational work.
    In the first days of his revolutionary activities in his early years, he, with a penetration into the significance of education, set up revolutionary schools of a new type to give Juche-based education to the rising generation.
    After the liberation of the country, he saw to it that the Samhung Middle School and many other schools were established and the issue of pencil was put on the agenda of the first Session of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea.
    During the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953), he ensured the continuity of education�Ctook a measure to recall teachers and students to their schools from the front and founded a factory college, the first of its kind in the world.
    In the period of the postwar rehabilitation and construction, the DPRK government, under his wise leadership, earmarked a colossal amount of fund for the rehabilitation of universities and schools at all levels ahead of other work. It introduced the universal compulsory primary education in August 1956 and the universal eleven-year compulsory education in September 1975 throughout the country.
    The theses on socialist education is successfully being implemented by leader Kim Jong Il.
    In recent years alone, he visited Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology, Hamhung University of Hydraulics and Songgan Middle School in Songgan County. He highly appreciated educators' merits and gave them important instructions concerning the educational work.
    He clarified ways of training IT experts and had modern centers for training computer talents set up in the capital. Before the liberation of the country 80 percent of the population was illiterate and there was not a single university in the country. But now there are many universities and schools in the country and people are enjoying the study-while-working system.