(People's Daily) National Scientific Conference "Uncle Ho with Education, Education with Uncle Ho": A Guiding Principle for Comprehensive Educational Reform
According to the People's Representatives Newspaper
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Monday - May 12, 2025 05:08
On the morning of May 12th, the national scientific conference "President Ho Chi Minh and Education, Education and President Ho Chi Minh" was held at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department Nguyen Trong Nghia and Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son attended and chaired the conference.
The national scientific conference "President Ho Chi Minh and Education, Education with President Ho Chi Minh," organized in coordination with the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department, the Ministry of Education and Training, Hanoi National University, and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, aims to practically commemorate the 135th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birth and look forward to the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Even more significantly, the conference was held at the very school where President Ho Chi Minh signed some of the first decrees.(October 10, 1945)Immediately after the founding of the new Vietnam, there was Decree No. 45 on the establishment of a Faculty of Literature in Hanoi - the predecessor of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi today. The conference attracted the participation of numerous reputable experts and scientists, with 120 papers presented.
National scientific conference "President Ho Chi Minh and education, education and President Ho Chi Minh"
Firmly implement Ho Chi Minh's ideology, methods, and style in education and training. Speaking at the conference, Politburo member, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, and Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department Nguyen Trong Nghia emphasized:"President Ho Chi Minh - the brilliant leader of our Party and nation, the great teacher of the Vietnamese revolution, the national liberation hero, a world cultural figure, an outstanding fighter of the international communist and workers' movement, the beloved father of the Vietnamese People's Armed Forces. He left to our Party, our nation, our people, and present and future generations an invaluable legacy: Ho Chi Minh Thought, Ho Chi Minh Morality, Ho Chi Minh Style, and the Ho Chi Minh Era." Comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia stated that in 1987, the General Assembly of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued Resolution 24C/18.65 on commemorating the 100th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birth. The resolution affirmed:"President Ho Chi Minh's significant and multifaceted contributions to the fields of culture, education, and art are the culmination of the thousand-year-old cultural tradition of the Vietnamese nation, and his ideas embody the aspirations of nations wishing to affirm their cultural identity.""and we hope to enhance mutual understanding among nations." President Ho Chi Minh's system of thought on education and training, his modern yet deeply rooted traditional educational methods and style, truly serves as the foundation and guiding principle for the development of Vietnamese education, Vietnamese culture, and the country and people. This includes the philosophy, "An ignorant nation is a weak nation." It also includes the vision: "An education that will train children to become useful citizens for Vietnam, an education that will fully develop their inherent abilities.” The motto is: "If you don't study hard, you can't make progress. Not making progress is regression"; "To know, you must compete in learning. Learning never ends. Keep learning to keep progressing. The more you progress, the more you realize you need to learn even more." The method is:Learn at school, learn from books, learn from each other, and learn from the people.That is the purpose:"Learn to work, to be a good person, and to be a good leader. Learn to serve the organization, the class and the people, the Fatherland and humanity." "Throughout the 80 years since the founding of the Nation, especially the nearly 40 years of implementing the reform process, our Party and State have always deeply understood, steadfastly upheld, and implemented Ho Chi Minh's thoughts, methods, and style on education and training, with the overarching principle of considering...""Education and training, along with science and technology, are top national priorities and key drivers for national development."”Vietnam's education and training system has achieved many important accomplishments in raising the intellectual level of the people, training human resources, and nurturing talents, contributing to the great and historically significant achievements of our country."Never before have we possessed the resources, potential, prestige, and international standing we have today."”"Comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia emphasized."
Nguyen Trong Nghia, member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, and Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department, delivered a speech at the national scientific conference "President Ho Chi Minh and Education, Education and President Ho Chi Minh".
A new context demands new thinking. According to Nguyen Trong Nghia, member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, and Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department, the world is undergoing epochal changes, with unprecedented rapid and complex transformations towards a multipolar, multi-centered, multi-layered, and strongly polarized world. New productive forces are developing rapidly, presenting both opportunities and challenges for nations. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, especially artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductor chips, robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), etc., is developing strongly and profoundly impacting all fields. Domestically, the entire political system is implementing revolutionary strategic policies on streamlining organizational structures, reorganizing administrative units, developing science and technology, promoting innovation, national digital transformation, and socio-economic development to strive for a GDP growth target of 8% or higher in 2025, creating momentum for double-digit growth in the 2026-2030 period. The entire Party, the entire people, and the entire army are demonstrating the highest determination and greatest efforts, unleashing all driving forces and resources, liberating all potential, removing bottlenecks, and leading the country into a new era of development - an era of the Vietnamese nation's upward progress; successfully achieving the goal of becoming a developing country with modern industry and high middle income by 2030; and becoming a developed country with high income by 2045, following the socialist orientation. The new context demands new thinking, action-oriented thinking, and actionable resolutions to create breakthroughs in the development of education and training, contributing to improving the quality of human resources, especially highly skilled human resources in new fields and professions. The draft document for the 14th Party Congress identifies the following tasks and solutions: Innovating and comprehensively improving the legal system, mechanisms, and policies on education and training development; and implementing the policy of "Standardization, modernization, democratization, socialization, and international integration.", with a focus on improving the quality of education and training. On April 25, 2025, the Central Party Office issued Notice No. 177-TB/VPTW, announcing the conclusions of General Secretary To Lam at a working session with representatives of the Party Committee of the Government and central ministries and agencies on the implementation of Central Committee resolutions on education and training… The notice clearly stated agreement to research and develop a plan to be submitted to the Politburo for the issuance of a resolution on breakthroughs in the development of education and training (similar to Politburo Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW). This resolution does not replace existing resolutions, but selects the most crucial issues and major bottlenecks to focus on directing and creating clear and concrete changes in the field of education and training.
Students from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities participated in the national scientific conference "President Ho Chi Minh and Education, Education and President Ho Chi Minh".
In the article with the title"Lifelong learning"Comrade General Secretary To Lam emphasized:We are living in an era where knowledge and understanding will help people maximize their potential to seize opportunities, effectively respond to challenges, and achieve sustainable development; it is also an era where the volume of human knowledge is increasing exponentially every day. Only when the entire Party, the entire people, the entire army, every household, and every individual effectively implements lifelong learning, and builds a team of cadres who dare to act, dare to speak, dare to take responsibility, and dare to sacrifice, can we firmly advance into a new era, an era of development and prosperity under the leadership of the Party.” Comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia emphasized: "At today's seminar, the values in President Ho Chi Minh's legacy on education and training will spread and strongly transform into the policies, guidelines, and practical organization and operation of Vietnam's education system, contributing to new victories for education and training; contributing to the training and development of high-quality, highly skilled human resources - the most important resource and driving force for building and developing the country and protecting the Fatherland, for a Vietnam.""Peace, independence, democracy, wealth, prosperity, civilization, happiness, and a steady march towards socialism""...standing shoulder to shoulder with the great powers of the five continents, as President Ho Chi Minh wished and as the burning aspiration of the nation."
Delegates attending the National Scientific Conference "President Ho Chi Minh and Education, Education and President Ho Chi Minh"
Ho Chi Minh exemplified the spirit of "teaching by example". Speaking at the conference, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said: "Today's conference once again reaffirms the great role of education in cultivating character and developing human beings. President Ho Chi Minh expressed important ideas about humanity, showing a very humane view of people:"Goodness and cruelty are not inherent traits. They are largely shaped by education." Over the years, our Party and State have always paid deep attention to and highly valued the role of education, thus the education sector has achieved many great accomplishments. This is also a vivid manifestation of inheriting and developing Ho Chi Minh's educational ideology." Minister Nguyen Kim Son stated that Ho Chi Minh was not only a national hero, a great politician, and a great cultural figure, but in the fullest and most representative sense, Ho Chi Minh was the greatest educator of modern times. The first aspect of this great educator lies in his ability to inspire and set goals for an entire nation and for each individual. Ho Chi Minh demonstrated the spirit of "personal example," that is, using himself as a role model to inspire, educate, unite, and persuade his comrades, students, and the people. Ho Chi Minh's exemplary character—frugality, integrity, righteousness, and selflessness—and his boundless, profound, and all-encompassing compassion have deeply permeated and contributed to creating values for the nation, the era, the political party, and the Vietnamese people. He left an eternal mark on the cultural values, moral values, and character of the Vietnamese people, both present and future. In the new context, in order to propel the country into an era of development and prosperity, standing shoulder to shoulder with the world's leading powers, the Party and State have identified education and training, along with science and technology, as top national priorities. Many important and groundbreaking policies have been implemented to ensure the continued development of education, achieving even greater results, creating the conditions and foundation for human development to meet the demands of the new era, and providing high-quality human resources for socio-economic development.
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son delivered a speech at the national scientific conference "President Ho Chi Minh and Education, Education and President Ho Chi Minh".
4 tasks for the education sector in the coming period Minister Nguyen Kim Son emphasized: In light of new demands and tasks, the education and training sector needs to deeply internalize and effectively apply Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on education. President Ho Chi Minh's thoughts, philosophy, and spirit of education, learning, self-study, and lifelong learning regarding education and training retain their value and continue to be a guiding principle for the current process of fundamental and comprehensive reform of education and training. Through this conference, the challenges facing the education sector in the coming period were also understood more deeply. Minister Nguyen Kim Son outlined four important tasks for the education sector in the coming time: The firstContinuing our research, we will further clarify Ho Chi Minh's legacy on education. The greater and deeper this legacy becomes, the more we see its brilliance each day. The education sector needs to strengthen the dissemination and education of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, ethics, and style throughout the sector, especially among cadres, teachers, students, and university students. For students in general, especially high school students, it is necessary to continue promoting the study of the five teachings of Uncle Ho in a regular and effective manner. Monday,Following, implementing, and promoting Ho Chi Minh's educational ideology in building a learning society and lifelong learning, and fostering the spirit of self-study, as directed by General Secretary To Lam.Lifelong learning encourages us to dare to think, dare to speak, dare to act, dare to take responsibility, and dare to sacrifice for the common good, in order to become useful members of society."; The General Secretary also gave instructions in the article "Lifelong learning": "We are living in an era where knowledge and understanding will help people maximize their potential to take advantage of opportunities, effectively respond to challenges, and achieve sustainable development; it is also an era where the volume of human knowledge is increasing exponentially every day. To implement President Ho Chi Minh's ideology and the directives of General Secretary To Lam, the education sector will strengthen education to cultivate self-learning abilities, continuous learning skills, digital learning, digital application, and enhance digital literacy and innovation skills for learners, creating a new generation capable of responding to and adapting to the challenges of the era, artificial intelligence, and the knowledge explosion. TuesdayTo improve the overall quality of education, especially moral education, lifestyle education, and revolutionary ideals, and to build a generation of citizens who are comprehensively developed in terms of morality, intellect, physical health, and aesthetics. To continue learning in the spirit of President Ho Chi Minh in constantly cultivating revolutionary ideals and national aspirations, and raising both the intellectual and spiritual level of the people. We need to promote Ho Chi Minh's methods of moral education and character development. In particular, we must promote the methods of self-cultivation, self-improvement, self-reflection, self-correction, self-regulation, self-discipline, and self-perfection. This includes the spirit of thrift, integrity, impartiality, selflessness, and self-sacrifice. The challenges facing the nation in the new era are immense, and both the intellect and character of the Vietnamese people need to be further enhanced to shoulder the responsibilities of the times. Wednesday,Continue to nurture and develop the teaching staff and education management personnel, considering them a decisive factor in the success of the reform process. Building a teaching staff requires exemplary conduct, in the spirit of "each teacher must be a shining example for students to follow," with a spirit and qualities of dedication and sacrifice, striving to excel in teaching and learning no matter how difficult the circumstances. Teachers must become role models who constantly engage in self-learning, self-renewal, self-improvement of their abilities and skills, and innovation in teaching methods. The immediate priority is to fully and effectively implement the Central Committee's resolutions on education, training, science and technology, and innovation. Gaining a deeper understanding of President Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on education and training. National scientific conference “"Uncle Ho and education, education and Uncle Ho"We listened to high-quality, heartfelt presentations, representing the sentiments and intellect of scientists, educators, education administrators, and students regarding the conference theme.
Professor Hoang Anh Tuan, Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities: "We need to continue to deepen our understanding of President Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on education and training, contributing to the promotion of fundamental and comprehensive reforms in education and training."
