One February day in Juche 106 (2017), the respected Comrade
He looked round various places of the school with great satisfaction as it had been built as the cradle and excellent learning space for the orphans.
While giving detailed instructions on their education and upbringing, he stated that putting the education sector on a modern basis and enhancing the quality of education are an issue of paramount importance for the state, as well as an issue of weighty and strategic importance for the future of the state.
Officials reproached themselves as they had paid lip service to the importance of education and failed to put forward the work of modernizing the education sector and enhancing the quality of education as the most important of all state affairs, regarding it as a mere technical matter.
After a while, he underscored the need never to neglect even trivial matters as regards education, and went on: It is imperative to establish a climate and discipline of giving top priority to the education sector throughout the country, and this is the demand of the Party and the revolution.
That day, the officials got a clear idea that education is the foremost affair of the Party and the state.