National Meeting of Educational Workers Held
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK
Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- A national meeting of educational workers was held at the People's Palace of Culture here Tuesday on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's historic work "On Further Developing Educational Work".
It reviewed the achievements and experience gained in the work to carry out the policy of the Workers' Party of Korea on effecting a revolutionary turn in the educational work and discussed the tasks and ways to bring about a revolutionary turn in the socialist educational work to meet the requirements of the Songun era in the new century.
Present at the meeting were Premier of the Cabinet Pak Pong Ju and other senior officials of the party and the state and a delegation of educational workers of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.
Secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK Choe Thae Bok conveyed a congratulatory message of the WPK Central Committee to the participants in the meeting.
The congratulatory message said the educational field is facing an honorable yet heavy task to take hold on the Juche-based educational idea of Kim Jong Il and his leadership feats in the educational field as the lifeline, bring about a radical turn in the field to meet the requirements of the Songun era so as to prepare all the students to be true Songun revolutionary soldiers intensely loyal to the WPK and reliable pillars for the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
The message stressed the need to decisively strengthen the intellectual education and scientific and technological education as required by the IT age in the new century and bring up the students to be able intellectuals possessed of serviceable knowledge and high creative ingenuity.
Minister of Education Kim Yong Jin made a report at the meeting.
He said: Kim Jong Il comprehensively clarified theoretical and practical issues arising in the educational field in the Songun era including the issues of successfully carrying forward the educational idea of President Kim Il Sung, maintaining the Party spirit, working-class spirit and the serve-the-people spirit, preserving the Juche character and national identity and applying the principle of the socialist pedagogy with a main emphasis on ample knowledge, high morality and strong body.
Kim Jong Il's leadership over the educational work has served as an inspiring banner firmly guaranteeing the triumphant progress of the Juche-based education in the Songun era and a motive force dynamically arousing the educational workers and teachers to continued innovations and feats, the reporter said.
Referring to the achievements made in the educational work, he underscored the need to steadily improve the educational contents and methods at the educational institutions at all levels.
He went on: The field of general education should put the quality of the11-year universal compulsory education on a higher level to help the rising generation lay a firm foundation for intellectual capacity as required by the IT age and the universities and colleges should closely combine the education in theory with practice, actively develop ultra-modern science and technology, successfully settle the scientific and technological matters arising in realizing informationalization and scientification of the national economy and lift the educational level on the basis of these achievements.
He stressed the need to train the teachers as true educational workers in the Songun era prepared politically and ideologically and possessed of scientific and theoretical qualifications and actively introduce modern IT media and means of education to enrich and diversify the educational contents and mode.
Speeches were made at the meeting.
A poem was recited by a congratulatory group of the Korean Children's Union at the meeting.
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