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Submitted by ctv_en_4 on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 10:25
According to the late president Ho Chi Minh, education is considered a big solution, covering all socio-economic development strategies. In his opinion, education aims to serve the people for the sake of national development.

If our predecessors regarded “education as the whole-life policy”, and “virtue and talent as the first and basic element of national development”, Ho Chi Minh, after the August 1945 Revolution, pointed out that “An illiterate nation is a weak nation”. Among the three enemies identified at the time, Ho Chi Minh stressed the importance of eliminating “illiteracy” to be on a par with the tasks of eliminating “hunger” and “foreign invaders”. In his thought, education demonstrates the superiority of the policy For the people as he said, “Studying eventually is to serve the nation and people.”


In a letter to teachers and students of a pre-university school in central Thanh Hoa province, he said, “teachers have the heavy, but glorious task of training cadres for the nation because education aims to serve the people.”


According to Ho Chi Minh, education targets all Vietnamese citizens, from intellectuals, workers, farmers, women to policemen and soldiers, particularly youths and pioneers. He said, “Studying is to work and to become men and cadres. Studying is to progress. The more progress we make, the harder we have to study.”


His view coincides with that of Lenin who said, “Study, study and study forever”, and of Confucius who said, “Studying is without boredom and Teaching is without tiredness”.

Ho Chi Minh also pointed out that studying is not only to know and observe knowledge, but also to practise it. He said, “Studying without practising becomes useless, so is practising without studying.”


By inheriting and promoting Ho Chi Minh’s view on education, the Party and State have formulated many policies to develop education and training. The seventh Party Central Committee issued resolution No2 identifying education as a top priority for national development.


Currently, the entire Party and State have been carrying out the Doi Moi (Renewal) process, which is in fact a complete revolution taking place in all aspects of life. In that revolution, the Party and State have still affirmed that education is a top national policy with a view to increasing people’s knowledge, training human resources and nurturing talents to serve national industrialisation and modernisation for the sake of a strong country, a rich people and an equitable, democratic and civilised society.


To develop education and training, it is imperative to fully observe his thought to build an advanced and superior education in line with the strategy on national education development outlined by the Party and State. It is both the major task and solution of the education sector in national development and stability strategy at present.

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