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Country’s Great Source
One May day in ２０２０, the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un inspected a newly-built factory.
That day he expressed satisfaction at the fact that the teachers and researchers of Kim Chaek University of Technology wonderfully established the integrated production system of the factory in cooperation with relevant units, stressing that talents are a great source and motive force of the country and that training of talents is the policy issue to which our Party attaches most priority.
Listening to him, officials were deep in thought.
In recent years when science and technology are developing to a high level and national power race is being waged worldwide, it is very important to train the talents. However rich and strong in natural resources and economic potentiality, a country will lag behind in the development of science and technology if it lacks talents and, in the long run, lose the future.
Looking around the officials, he noted the work for training talents should be well done in a far-sighted way as required by developing reality, adding that the country with the shortage of sci-tech talents cannot manage and develop its economy in a long-term and strategic way.
And then he underlined the need to bring up the talents as pillars of the country by training them in a systematic way, earnestly instructing that the field of education should strengthen the education on the basis of right goal for training sci-tech talents a lot.
The officials made firm determination to direct due efforts to the education for the rising generations, thus training them to be talents capable of promoting the building of a powerful socialist country.
Mother Classroom He Looked Round in Delight
One January day in ２０１８, the respected General Secretary learned in detail about the modernization conditions and education work at various places of Pyongyang Teachers Training College and dropped in at a mother classroom.
An official of the college gave a detailed explanation to him that, in the classroom, they teach such methods as using all household utensils in educating children, educating orphans and showing warm motherly affection to orphans according to the plan for extracurricular education.
After listening to the official, the General Secretary, expressing his great joy, asked if the graduates from the college have been allocated a lot to the primary schools for orphans as teachers.
The official replied affirmatively, but could not understand why the General Secretary was so glad.
After a while, he said it was essential to teach the students how to combine school education and family education in a classroom arranged by simulating the home environment, stressing that as there were some graduates allocated to Pyongyang Primary School for Orphans as teachers, such education was urgently needed and accordingly, the college had to give such educations to the students.
The officials were warmly touched by his saying.
His instructions given that day were kept deep in minds of the educators as an earnest request of the benevolent teacher wishing to train all the children across the country as pillars of the country possessing excellent character.