culture

The April 13th issue of Rodong Sinmun carried a news that Korean children and students had created a great stir again at the 33rd international children and schoolchildren’s art work festival held in Khabarovsk of Russia, to the pleasure of the Korean people.

In the new century of the Juche era, children fully demonstrated their talents at an international piano contest, international piano music contest and festival and international charitable production festival.

Such successes are unthinkable apart from the advantageous socialist educational system and excellent early music education system.

An official of the Ministry of Education said that although many countries attach importance to preschool education, it would be hard to find a country where the state gives compulsory and free education as it takes full responsibility for it.

He noted that in the country, genius education including early music education takes an important position along with general education aimed at preparing children in an all-round way and that the state spares nothing in the efforts to give full play to the excellent artistic talents of children.

According to an official in the artistic educational sector, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stressed several years ago the need to newly set up music classes in kindergartens in the areas near art schools in every province and provide them with necessary conditions well, and later gave an instruction to establish new music classes at kindergartens for the training of music expert reserves in Pyongyang, clarifying problems arising in standardizing education and improving the educational level. Under such meticulous care of him, our early music education has been able to steadily follow the road of development, the official added.

Situated in the centre of the capital city, Taedongmun Kindergarten in Central District is well-known as a prestigious early music educational base in the country along with Kyongsang Kindergarten.

Director Kim Hyong Ae, meritorious person of socialist patriotism and Merited Teacher, said that the state sends university graduates in special fields and excellent experts in major art organizations to those educational facilities in order to find out and bring into full bloom the artistic talents of kindergartners, which constitutes an important guarantee for enhancing the qualitative level of education.

Teachers of the kindergarten go to nurseries every year to select kids with good memory and great musical aptitude and give them professional education in kayagum, violin, oungum and piano.

Under the early music education system whereby the state takes full responsibility of the whole process of education and enforces it free of charge, three kindergarten teachers take care of one child.

After graduating from kindergartens, children can receive professional education of a higher stage.

Many music prodigies who graduated from the kindergarten have now grown into veteran artistes loved by the people.

In the past, the kindergarten produced a lot of talents, including a little composer who presented a collection of songs by reflecting the simple juvenile mind along with a letter to the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un.

“As a substantial fruit can grow on a fertile soil, our children will grow staunchly as masters of the future under the excellent educational system,” said Kim Hyong Ae.