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A Letter from a Disciple
2023.09.12.

PhD and Ass. Prof. Song Sun Ok from Pyongyang Teachers Training College received a letter.

She was very pleased to get a letter from her disciple who had volunteered to the branch school on a frontline islet.

Having asked about her health and informed her of her family life, she wrote in detail the achievements she had made in education the children, including the one who had presented the collection of his compositions to General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

At the end of her letter, she wrote:

“…

Now it seems as if I could not live on away from my branch school on this islet.

Always mindful of the advice you gave me on the day when I volunteered to this school, I will devote my clear conscience and sincerity to education at this school to the end of my life.”

As she pictured before her eyes her former student who had struck root deep at the branch school, her heart swelled up with pride in having an excellent disciple.

That was not the only happy day for her.

How happy she is whenever she receives the information that some of her disciples have been awarded the title of Merited Teacher, some others have been appointed as principals or still others have become heroes!

On those occasions she thinks deep what could she for her excellent disciples so that she could proudly say, “This teacher is my disciple.”

Therefore, she, though in advanced age now, has given sincere help to the disciple in her work and life and taken maternal care of her two brothers.

Song Sun Ok says, “I am an educator. Though my students have graduated from the college, I am still their teacher.”

What she says gives an answer to the question why disciples never forget their teachers, respecting and following them.

Our teachers have only wish – they want their disciples to become genuine beings respected by the society and collective and remembered by the country and people.

On the day when Song Sun Ok received a letter from her disciple, she again reconfirmed her determination to devote her all for her laudable disciples.