Immortal education programme

President Kim Il Sung published Theses on Socialist Education in September 1977, providing a guideline of the Juche-oriented and popular socialist education. In his theses, he produced the unique idea on the fullest and sustainable education of all people for the first time in history, and set the coordination of preschool, school and adult education as the formula of socialist education.

This was a perfect answer to the pending question. Through a well-organized higher education system that gives instruction to people on their job—as is given by colleges established at factories, farms, fishing stations and other establishments—and the refresher-course system the Korean people can study all their life without suspension and are developing their talent to spearhead the era of knowledge-based economy. Libraries, public halls and social educational and edification institutions are also to be found everywhere, which closely combine schooling and social education.

The Grand People's Study House, a house for all-people learning, has conducted a lot of various educational activities—services for reading, scientific and theoretical lectures, sci-tech lectures, lectures for information on new technology, and requested lectures—for the last dozens of years.

Like this, the system for all people to learn has been in regular operation for scores of years, as stipulated by Theses on Socialist Education.

In 2016 the Sci-Tech Complex, home of everybody’s learning which is furnished on the highest level, was opened, thus the Korean people have another palace of learning appropriate to the qualities of a civilized socialist nation.

Chairman Kim Jong Il consistently adhered to President Kim Il Sung's ideology and line of giving importance to education and directed a great effort to the education work even in the most difficult period of the revolution.

He gave energetic guidance to the work of glorifying the national dignity on the highest stage on the strength of the latest science and technology.

Speaking to the seminar on the national action programme for all-people learning held in Pyongyang over a decade ago, the UNESCO representative said that Korea with the universal 11-year compulsory education had realized UNESCO's goal by 2015 for giving education to all people long time before, and that the country is a land of learning.

Sci-Tech Complex