Education in North Korea

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North Korea is known worldwide as a nation of secrecy. The Kim Dynasty has made an effort to dictate all thoughts that enter the mind of each North Korean citizen. The government ensures that schools strictly teach of the Dear Leader and Communism. The main goal of the country is to raise Kim-respecting workers. Students are taught basic subjects in mostly inadequate facilities. The government restricts all learning that could be from outside the country. The education of the average North Korean is incomparable to those living elsewhere in the world due to the North Korean dictator suppressing information from his own country and the world in order to hold power.
North Koreans spend the same average amount of time in school as countries with "very high human development" ("Mean years of schooling [of adults] [years]"). Children start kindergarten at age 5 and attend school for a total of 11 years. Students are enrolled in kindergarten, four years of primary school, and six years of secondary school. In primary school, main topics include Kim history, Korean language, mathematics, Communism, and art. Students then continue to either a secondary school that elaborates on primary school ideas, are admitted to one specifically for mathematics, science, or history, or attend a "No. 1 high school." The education a student receives will adequately prepare the student for a government-assigned job (De Capua 24). Ideas of teamwork and submitting to authority are woven into lessons from the very beginning of North Korean schooling.
The time students spend in school is different than the United State's school schedule. North Korean school is in session March to June and September to late December. School is held Monday throu...

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