Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) — The 15th National Conference of Teachers opened with splendor in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK, on Wednesday at a historic time when the educational revolution for turning our state into the most advanced country in education across the world has been intensified at a new high stage under the original idea of the Workers’ Party of Korea on attaching importance to education and under its wise guidance.
The conference, convened amid the special concern of the Party and the government regarding the training of the rising generation and talents as the most important affair of the revolution and the great expectation of all the people, constitutes an essential and responsible process for successfully attaining the grand goals set forth by the Ninth Congress of the WPK before the educational sector, including the thorough implementation of the second universal 12-year compulsory education programme.
The conference will analyze and review in depth the implementation of the Party’s educational policy for the past seven years after the 14th National Conference of Teachers and discuss the realistic issues for promoting the new qualitative development of our education.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, attended the conference.
When Comrade Kim Jong Un appeared at the venue of the conference, the participants raised stormy cheers.
All the participants paid the highest tribute and glory to the outstanding leader, the great teacher who is ushering in a brilliant heyday of development of the Juche-oriented education with his distinguished idea and leadership and ardent love for the rising generation.
Present at the conference were exemplary educators from across the country, leading personnel in the field of education from Pyongyang and local areas, officials of relevant units and members of the delegation of educators of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon).
Its platform was taken by senior Party and government officials, chief secretaries of provincial committees of the WPK, leading officials of major educational institutions, exemplary teachers and educational workers, officials of the sponsoring organizations and the head of the Chongryon delegation of educators.
Comrade Kim Jong Un made a significant speech to open the conference.
The educational work is the state’s top-priority affair as it cannot and must not be placed after any other affairs and this is indisputable truth and our consistent principle, he said, expressing his pleasure of personally conveying the expectation of the WPK Central Committee attaching special importance to the current conference and extending the warm respectful greetings he always wanted to offer the teachers.
Mothers give birth to their children, but our teachers are beneficent ones who bring the children up to be nice ones, he noted, and extended the warmest respects and thanks to all the educators of the country and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan who have been working as honorable teachers with high sense of responsibility and noble personality since they chose the glorious yet difficult career as educators of their own accord.
He said that the national conference of teachers was held 15 times until now but there was no such conference as the present one our educators greet proudly with the priceless fruits presented to the country and successes recognized by the people, praising the reality of the educational sector in which remarkable changes have been made just for a few years, not ten or twenty years, in such vast ranges as the system, structure, contents and methods, conditions and environment, social concern and support.
He once again expressed the ideal and will of the Party to make ours the world’s best education which all other peoples admire and want to receive and which can help to dynamically lead the efforts to achieve the national prosperity, and the deep trust in all the educators who are designers and builders for the long-term development of the country and the revolution and the driving force of the educational revolution. And he declared the opening of the conference with his confidence in its success.
The participants burst into stormy cheers, out of their boundless reverence and gratitude to Comrade Kim Jong Un who shows great trust and love for the teachers, putting them forward as true patriots cultivating the future of the country to the envy of the world.
The national anthem of the DPRK was played.
A congratulatory group of the Korean Children’s Union entered the venue to recite a congratulatory poem.
At the end of the recitation, the venue was overflowing with great excitement of the participants again.
Expressing his conviction of the successful conference once again, Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly encouraged all the participants.
The venue was filled with the boundless pride of the participants glorifying the honor of soldiers and committed revolutionaries standing at the forefront of the talent education in the great era of transformation.
Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, made a report.
He said that the past seven years since the 14th National Conference of Teachers are the proud annals which witnessed a radical change and remarkable progress in education along with the powerful trend towards ushering in a great golden age of the DPRK true to the outstanding ideology of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and under his leadership.
He noted that Comrade Kim Jong Un, who holds up talented persons and science and technology as the main strategic resources and the most powerful motive force of self-sustenance and self-development, comprehensively clarified the tasks of teachers to implement the Party’s policy on bringing about a radical turn in education. He added that at the 8th Congress of the WPK, Comrade Kim Jong Un set it as the general goal of education to develop education to the extent that it can be entrusted with guaranteeing the future of the country and clearly indicated the principle and ways for carrying out the revolution in education.
The reporter said that according to the steadfast will and determination of the WPK Central Committee which values each process and chain of the educational work as the affair for the eternal prosperity of the country and the revolution, the education was placed high on the agenda at important Party and state meetings and policies were adopted to dynamically make a turning point in the educational revolution.
He referred to the wise leadership and undying feats of Comrade Kim Jong Un, who set it forth as the main task of the educational sector to improve the structure, contents and methods of education and as a prerequisite for the development of education to build up the ranks of teachers, took practical measures to this end and made sure that the work for improving the educational conditions and environment was pushed forward in all spheres including the capital city, regions and urban and rural areas on a large scale.
The reporter noted that all educators across the country have led a worthwhile and happy life under the care of Comrade Kim Jong Un, who highly praises the teachers devoting all their wisdom and energy to education as true patriots and meritorious persons and puts them on the platform of glory.
Saying that Comrade Kim Jong Un is the outstanding leader ushering in a heyday of the development of education with his noblest outlook on the younger generation and future and with his far-sighted view and wise leadership and bringing earlier the rosy future of our powerful and prosperous state, the reporter reviewed the remarkable successes achieved in the educational sector over the past seven years under the care of the WPK Central Committee.
It is the immutable truth confirmed in the course spanning seven years that we can turn the DPRK into a world-class educational power and a talent power only when we remain faithful to the unique idea of the WPK Central Committee on attaching importance to education and its wise leadership, he said and extended the highest glory and deep gratitude to respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, reflecting the unanimous mind of all educators across the country.
The report pointed to a series of deviations.
The reporter recalled that the Ninth Congress of the WPK set forth it as the goal of the education during the new long-term plan to scrupulously train all students to be useful talents contributing to the revolutionary practice, decisively reduce the difference in the educational level between urban and rural areas and perfect the overall educational foundation of the country in a modern way, and referred to the tasks for attaining the goal.
The reporter referred to the intention and determination of the WPK Central Committee to make the world recognize that the DPRK is the country giving top priority to education and the most advanced country in education, and called upon all the participants to attain without fail the goal of the educational development set forth by the Ninth Congress of the WPK, with the noble consciousness that they are those in direct charge of bringing about a radical improvement in education and soldiers standing at the forefront of talent training, and with the patriotic attitude, redoubled passion and efforts and thus dynamically usher in the period of making a leap forward in building an education power.
Then followed speeches.
The conference is going on successfully amid high political enthusiasm of all the participants honored to receive high appreciation and credit given by the WPK Central Committee. -0-
