The 14th National Conference of Teachers was held in the DPRK last September to improve the general educational level of the country and further accelerate the building of a socialist educational power and a talent power.

In the work sent to the conference, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un said that teachers have to fulfil their responsibilities and duties as career revolutionaries in order to successfully build a power of education and talents.

Through the conference all the educators throughout the country have realized once again the urgency and significance of a revolutionary turn in education.

After the meeting, their enthusiasm has markedly been raised to reliably guarantee the future of the country by training students to be competent revolutionary personnel.

They launched a campaign of improving their qualifications and an intense competition to improve their credentials as teachers.

They studied hard to have a better understanding of modern science and technology and education science and acquire extensive and many-sided knowledge, thereby widening their horizons and enhancing teaching and instruction abilities.

In the course of this, many teachers at institutions of primary, secondary and tertiary education were awarded the certificates of registration of new teaching method and the October 8 model teacher and academic degrees and titles.

A nationwide major ability assessment of university lecturers and students of graduating class in the teachers training sector made last September and October served as an important occasion in deciding rankings of universities of education and teachers training colleges, taking practical measures, generalizing the experiences of advanced universities, improving the qualifications of teachers and boosting students’ scholarly performance.

Lots of lecturers acquired good personality and qualities as career revolutionaries with an ennobling view on the younger generation and clear conscience and devotion as educators.

The country sees an increase in genuine teachers and patriots including a new generation of teachers, who left their hometowns and volunteered to work at schools on remote islands and in frontline areas and mountain villages, and in the children of teachers who carry on the baton of their parents.

Kim Un Gyong, young primary class teacher at Husan Senior Middle School in Ryonggang County, continues to go to school carrying a crippled boy on her back for years with motherly affection even today though he was moved to a junior middle school after completing the primary school course.

“The students who were taught by incompetent teachers are bound to be empty-headed, and parents do not want to entrust the education of their children to such a teacher,” said Ri Kwan Ho, vice-chairman of the Education Commission. “All educators have a proper attitude and stand to take responsibility of students in their charge on behalf of the country not only in their school days but also in the future after graduation, and a view of life to become strong roots that help bear good fruit.”