Narantsetseg
Basic information
Interviewee ID: 990241
Name: Narantsetseg
Parent's name: Dashdorj
Ovog: Borjigon
Sex: f
Year of Birth: 1943
Ethnicity: Halh
Additional Information
Education: higher
Notes on education:
Work: retired
Belief: Christian
Born in: Han-Uul sum, Ulaanbaatar aimag
Lives in: [None Given] sum (or part of UB), Ulaanbaatar aimag
Mother's profession: Veterinary hospital laboratory worker
Father's profession: veterinarian (baga emch)
Themes for this interview are:
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education / cultural production
work
urban issues
cultural campaigns
family
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childhood
schoolchildren's life
urbanization
city life
Choibalsan's funeral
Chinese
secondary school
Pioneers
Revolutionary Youth League
industrialization
cultural campaigns
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Summary of Interview 090632A with Narantsetseg
I was born in 1943 in the city. In 1963, I completed the Teacher’s school and worked for the state for thirty years and then retired.
Our school had a small one-storey white house with two school rooms and one teachers’ room. In one room the children of two grades studied together. The teacher would go to one row and teach her class there and then she would go to the other row and worked with those children. There used to be two-colored copying pencils. We used to rip up that pencil and taking the lead we dissolved it in water making ink. The ink in the glass froze and we tucked in into the front of a sheepskin deel a child was wearing. There were no textbooks at all. The teachers wrote on the board and we copied it and read it. After completing the seventh grade I went to vocational school and having completed it I went to teach at secondary school Number Three which was the first general education school. The children’s organization’s structure was very appropriate to prepare them for society and to ‘civilize’ them. The children who just begun attending school were taken into the ‘Heroes’ row. One class was divided into four groups and they competed between each other in studies and discipline. Then they joined the Pioneers. When joining the Pioneers they studied the regulations and the history of the Mongolian Pioneer organization and lifting their hands they gave an oath in front of the flag, “I will become an upright citizen of Mongolia”. The children had a respectful attitude and they were full of joy when joining the Pioneers. They joined with great encouragement and wore a pioneer tie. Then in the senior grade, reaching the age of sixteen, they became the members of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League. The children who had been working at the League and Pioneer organizations became militant and acquired the skill of organizing.
The cultural campaign was not only about cups, plates and towels but it played a great role in enhancement of the people’s knowledge and education. Everywhere in the administration offices the literacy circles were organized and they handed out the certificates that said ‘became literate’ to those who had completed the circles. Since then the people began to study and complete the seventh grade acquiring a partial education. Also, the cultural campaign greatly contributed to making people healthy, getting rid of venereal diseases and TB. In the household everyday life the people acquired bed sheets and hand towels and dish towels, preserving hygiene. The knitting and embroidery circles had been organized for the wives and they were taught a great many things.
