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Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Work Marked

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, September 4 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the People's Palace of Culture on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "Theses on Socialist Education."
    Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Kim Yong Il and officials of party, armed forces organs and power bodies, ministries and national institutions, working people's organizations and the field of education and officials, teachers and researchers at schools of various levels.
    Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made a report at the meeting.
    He said that Kim Il Sung published "Theses on Socialist Education" on Sept. 5, Juche 66 (1977), providing a great programme for the Juche-oriented education, the programme most correctly indicating the way of training independent and creative human beings, the true way of socialist education. This marked a historic event of epochal significance in the development of education in the era of independence, the reporter noted, and went on:
    In the theses the President scientifically clarified that socialist education is, in essence, an undertaking to train people as independent and creative social beings and the aim of socialist education is to prepare people as genuine revolutionary intellectuals who have independence and creativity and gave comprehensive answers to the questions as to the contents and methods of education.
    The President wisely led the work to implement the theses, ushering in the great heyday in the development of Juche-oriented education, and worked heart and soul to develop this education till the last moments of his noble life.
    The President's idea of education and his cause of building Juche-oriented education have been successfully carried forward at a new higher level by Kim Jong Il, the reporter noted, and went on to say: The greatness of the ideas and leadership of the peerlessly great men who provided the revolutionary and original great programme for education and the tremendous vitality of the theses have been fully demonstrated in the educational practice over the past three decades.
    Juche has been firmly established in the education and the contents and methods of intellectual education and the education in science and technology have remarkably improved as required by the party policy and the IT age.
    The endeavors to raise the quality of the universal 11-year compulsory education resulted in improving the education in general basic science, foreign languages and basic technology, thereby enabling the younger generation to grow up to be able intellectuals possessed of a high level of secondary general knowledge and creative ability.
    As a result of the consolidation of the socialist educational system under the rays of the educational theses, the DPRK is now covered with a dense network of schools, turning the country into a land of learning where people are given opportunities to study all their lives and putting it on a high level where it can successfully realize the intellectualization of all members of society.
    The reporter called upon all officials and teachers to bring about fresh miracles and innovations in the education of the rising generation and thus thoroughly implement the behests of the President and uphold the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il with great achievements in education and scientific researches.