Voices of Conscience by Patriots
As Long As I Can Bring Up Pupils Well
Several years have passed since I graduated from the university under the benevolence of the Party and became a teacher.
In those days I often felt tired and became effeminate for doing the assigned teaching work as a housewife.
Every time, I recalled the unforgettable story given by my class teacher during senior middle school.
It was the day when I was honoured to receive
When I rushed up to the teacher with the badge of
So I asked the teacher why she hadn’t got any.
The teacher said with a smile on her face that she had nothing to desire as long as pupils grow up to be excellent ones.
Scores of years have passed since then.
However my class teacher’s words that day still remain engraved in my heart and serve as a mirror reflecting my conscience and my view of life up till now.
Today lots of teachers of our university, possessed of such view of life, are covering the road of patriotism.
To feel pride in and honour of bringing up students well, keeping the honour of culturing the future of the country - this is just the attitude of a professional revolutionary.
Even if I neither win any honour nor be commended on this road, I have nothing more to wish for if I can only bring up pupils well.
Nothing is more proud and worthwhile for an educator than to bring up students to be genuine patriots who will do their share for the country and firm cornerstone of the country. For me, this is true patriotism.
With such mindset, I always make exact demands on myself.
I will fulfil my mission and duty as a teacher revolutionary for the sound growth of pupils and rosier future of the country to be prosperous.
Kim Suk Yong, teacher of Publication Faculty of Pyongyang University of Publication and Printing
With Mindset of Standing in Starting Point
A few years ago, I was diagnosed as an incurable disease.
At that time, I was driven to despair.
What afflicted me more was that I became unable to repay the love and benevolence of the Party.
Actually I have no idea of what my parents look like.
However, I grew up happily without feeling sad for being parentless, being provided with new school uniforms, school things and gifts of love according to the season just as others under the care of the Party.
There were also lots of benevolent people who came to see me, willing to become my parents.
I was extremely grateful to our socialist system. So as I grew older, I made up my mind to devote all myself to the workplace the Party attaches greatest importance to.
After leaving the middle school, I volunteered to work at the socialist countryside and worked there for １０-odd years.
I agonized much over the fact that I was bedridden in the full flush of my working age.
I told myself I cannot give up and have to cover the road of repayment.
I devoted all my pure sincerity to the work for the country including strengthening the national defense capacities and assisting the army and the grand construction sites.
Sometimes I felt like yielding to difficulties. But, I braced myself up with the mindset of standing in a starting point.
If I hadn’t such consciousness, I would have given up covering the road of patriotism hundreds of times.
Now my children, too, have embarked on this road.
I am wont to tell my children that they can keep to the path of patriotism to the last only when they deeply cherish the zeal for repayment with the mindset of standing in a starting point.
Jong Cun Sil, living in Neighborhood Unit No.１７, Ungok-dong, Songrim City, North Hwanghae Province