President
"Teachers are career revolutionaries, who train the rising generations into successors to the revolution. Mindful of the honour of being teachers, you should remain faithful to your revolutionary work, overcoming all manner of difficulties and hardships."
Education is a revolutionary work, teachers are career revolutionaries!
The heroes of this valuable call are found everywhere in this country.
There is also a small and big school known to the whole country in Yaksu village of Changsong County, which was known as a poor place in old times.
It is not by producing outstanding figures nor by achieving exceptional educational achievements.
It was our great leader who made sure that the whole country knew a small school in remote mountainous area.
One day in September 1955 when ordinary lectures were given as usual, President
When the teacher and all the students were so excited that they could not say a word of greeting in bewilderment, the President, with a bright smile on his face, motioned them to sit down and study, and sat down in a chair at the back of the classroom to see the teacher give instruction to them.
When the lesson was over, the children set up shouts of joy and got in close to his bosom. The President, who patted them clinging to his arms, told the headmaster about the life and teaching of the teachers, and said that he would have difficulty with a narrow classroom and no playground, and chose a new place to build a school in a sunny and picturesque place.
When the President visited the village again the following autumn, he personally came to the construction site of the school and took detailed care of the problems arising in the construction of the school, including the fact that the students had a fireplace instead of a stove so that they would not have trouble with it.
In the autumn of 1957, a little over a year after the school was completed, the President dropped in at the construction company to see to it that the dormitory of the school should be built at an early date and gave precious instructions to be regarded by teachers as guidelines in education.
The President said that the teachers should educate the new generation well and bring them up to be genuine revolutionaries and communists, and play the role of propagandist of the agricultural policy of our Party among the peasants, and that the teachers should take the lead in the implementation of the cultural revolution.
And he said that education is not a job but a revolutionary work, a very difficult work and one requiring patience.
The President taught the teachers, full of boundless pride and self-confidence, how the main thing in school work is teaching and how to make students' knowledge useful down to the minutest detail.
The President's field guidance to Yaksu Middle School in Changsong County continued in July the following year until 1961.
In those days, the President saw to it that field trips to the Suphung Power Station and Kusong Textile Mill were organized so as to give visual instruction to the students, and sent herons, and taught that rabbits, goats, sheep, geese and others should be raised by the students' own hands to acquire their living knowledge.
He also paid great attention to the physical training and the cultivation of cultured emotions and feelings of the students, had one schoolboy exercise on the horizontal bar and sent a piano and many national instruments to the school, giving valuable instructions on developing sports combined with production and education and educating the students in revolutionary optimism.
Under the care of the fatherly leader who has always made love and loving care for the future of the country, fearing that there might be seeds that have not sprouted in the beautiful flowerbed where the future of the country is growing, all the students of the school grew up to be reliable pillars of the country, and the teachers were prepared to be good gardeners and true revolutionaries responsible for the future of the country.
