All the Korean people significantly greet the September holiday with the boundless pride and honour of living and struggling in the glorious our-state-first era. They are filled with boundless reverence for President
The respected Comrade
"The great leader Comrade
The birth of the glorious Democratic People's Republic of Korea was the birth of a Juche-oriented and people-oriented independent and sovereign state, the first of its kind in the history of mankind, and a historic event that opened up a new era of building a great power.
The day after proclaiming the founding of the DPRK to the world, President made public "The Political Programme of the DPRK Government" at the First Session of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK.
In the fifth item of the political programme, he indicated that the government would direct great efforts to advancing education, culture and the public health service and that, in the field of education, it would widely extend the school network to take in as many children as possible who were not, at that time, at school, and to raise the rate of admission to junior and senior middle schools, and would introduce compulsory primary education in 1950. He also emphasized that the training of national cadres should be hastened. Thus, he clearly indicated the way for the development of the country's education.
The introduction of universal compulsory primary education with free education as a prerequisite was the first noteworthy event not only in the history of Korean but also in the East.
The world people were surprised at the grand goals for the enforcement of the universal compulsory primary education system and the training of national cadres set forth as part of a government programme along with the founding of the DPRK.
In fact, the then economic conditions of the country were not satisfactory. The situation of the country was very grave due to the frantic moves of the enemy to ignite a war.
But with his noble outlook on the rising generation and future, President
At the dreamlike news that their lifelong wish to enable children to study to their heart's content would be fulfilled, the people across the country were moved to tears and extended their thanks to President
On 10th of October, 1948, merely a month after the founding of the DPRK, the President made the time to attend the inauguration ceremony of a new school building of
The new building of the university was the first modern building built by our liberated people with their own efforts and technology, he said, adding with emotion: We had a serious discussion on how to use the rice donated to the state in a patriotic spirit by Kim Je Won and other patriotic peasants who were overjoyed at receiving land; we finally decided to use it for educational work to train cadres and to erect the university building where the sons and daughters of the people would be successfully trained.
Thanks to the wise leadership of the President and his infinite warm love for the rising generation, Juche-oriented education could dynamically advance.
The universal compulsory primary education system, which had failed to start due to the war, was successfully enforced under the wise guidance and warm care of the President despite the difficult conditions of postwar rehabilitation. Later, the universal 11-year compulsory education was fully enforced in the country for the first time in the world history from September 1, 1975.
This was a brilliant victory of the President's Juche-oriented educational idea and an event that brought about an epochal advance in the development of Juche-oriented education.
