A baby, only a few weeks old,
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Azur was sent to a nursery at the mother place. The
children would stay there from early morning until late The mothers
were permitted breaks from their work to feed them. A ular classes,
the state kept school-aged youngsters busy with super tivities.
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spending only an hour or two a ( their parents, if that much. North
Korea had been one of the fir countries to extend free public
education as far as grade ten, and tha was an undeniably impressive
accomplishment. As a Westerner, tJ could not help finding a sinister
aspect to the system's near monopob dren's upbringin8' and the
direction in which it guided them.
Official propaganda claimed on one level that the children the
were the beneficiaries of the approach. "In this country," President :
said, "children are the kings." His disciples thapsodically reported
Great Leader would do anything for the children, and that the edt
system was a manifestation of his boundless love for them.
I visited a Pyon:yang weekly boarding nursery, whose tiny spent
only Saturday nights and
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families. The said enthusiastically that they "grow faster and learn
more than if thej home." Meanwhile, tots in her nursery competed in a
relay race to sc of two teams could be first to complete sentences
such as "We are har"We have nothing to envy in the world." Two-year-
olds in the sli nursery were counting apples displayed on a visual
aid: "These and one more makes five." In a room decorated with models
of P Kim's birthplace, little ones showed the proper attitude to th
Leader by reciting stories of his childhood and bowing before his l
portrait. By the time children reached kindergarten age, the) have
learned to say, when they received their snacks, "Thank yor Fatherly
Leader."
Sometimes it was the parents who were said to benefit ~rom the c
educational system. Mothers were "liberated" for "political, econo
cultural life," the nursery director said. At the mammoth Pyongya
dren's Palace, an official explained that having the state in charge
of not only in school but
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that "parents do not have i about the children's education." The
"palace" kept ten thousand midcI and high school students busy from 4
P.M. to 7 P.M. daily with classe; rather advanced -in music, arts,
crafts, vocational subjects, sports, i tics and communist ideology.
Provincial capitals offered similar if sc smaller facilities.
On another level, Kim Il-sung himself had indicated that benef
ing ~rom the educational system to parents and children as individu
not really what he had in mind. Rather, the education system was inb
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