President Kim Il Sung established the Pedagogical Institute on Dec. 16, Juche 48 (1959) and led it to accelerate the educational development of the country by fully solving the theoretical and practical problems arising in improving the contents of education and teaching methods, as required by the developing times.

Chairman Kim Jong Il set forth an idea of putting educational science ahead of educational work, made clear the principles and ways to place education on a scientific basis and took measures to lay material and technical foundation for educational science researches.

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un established a unified control and guidance system to ensure that the Pedagogical Institute plays a leading role in bringing about a radical improvement in education in the new century.

Under the leadership of the peerlessly great men, the Pedagogical Institute has authored and published a lot of books dealing with the originality and validity of the educational policy of the Workers' Party of Korea and the superiority and vitality of the socialist educational system. It has also contributed to making all the people well versed in science and technology by making significant research achievements conducive to the educational development of the country.

A meeting took place on Monday to mark the anniversary.