That day, he looked round various places of the village with pleasure. Telling officials that it was necessary to narrow the differences between town and countryside, he gave precious instructions on education.
  He said that the whole Party should conduct the campaign to increase the ranks of model ris in the cities and counties and, furthermore, make efforts to create model counties by expanding it. And he defined the model county as the one in which all the working people are firmly armed with the revolutionary idea of the WPK and the overall affairs including education go smoothly.
  A county cannot be estimated only with diet and living standards, he said and added that the county in which the educational facilities of schools haven't reached the due level cannot be recognized as a model one no matter how good it may be at farming.
  Comrade Kim Jong Un had already called on officials to attach importance to education and raise its level.
  At that time, he said the provinces should establish a climate of attaching importance to education and stressed that education should be adopted as an important criterion for estimating the provinces.
  His instruction that education should be regarded as an important criterion for estimating the regions reflected his firm will to put the overall education of the country on a new height and successfully guarantee the future of the motherland by making all the provinces, cities and counties pay due attention to education.