Take the best care of both material and spiritual needs so that teachers can work with peace of mind *

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the ceremony to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Vietnamese Teachers' Day (November 20, 1982 - November 20, 2022). Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Dear Party and State Leaders!

Dear comrades representing central and local departments, ministries, branches and organizations!

Dear teachers!

Today, in the thousand-year-old capital of Hanoi, we solemnly celebrate the 40th anniversary of Vietnamese Teachers' Day (November 20, 1982 - November 20, 2022) - a festival of generations of teachers, those who have always devoted themselves to the noble cause of educating people, and are grateful, respected and honored by the whole society.

In that meaningful atmosphere,we remember with sadnessTeachers with great personalities, who made many important contributions to the country's education such as teachers Chu Van An, Nguyen Binh Khiem, Nguyen Thiep, Nguyen Van Huyen...;we respectfully thankmartyr teachers who sacrificed for the cause of national liberation and reunification;we rememberThe shining example of Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Ky's devotion to his beloved students..., the soldier teachers in green uniforms, the teachers who cross streams and passes every day, bringing letters to children in mountainous, remote, border, island areas, areas with difficult socio-economic conditions...

On this solemn and sacred anniversary, we express our most sincere feelings and deepest gratitude to President Ho Chi Minh, National Hero, World Cultural Celebrity, Great Teacher who devoted his life to the Fatherland, to the people, including the Education and Training sector.

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, with all my deep affection and gratitude, I would like to send my respectful greetings, warm regards and best wishes to generations of teachers and educational administrators across the country.

Dear teachers!

Tradition of loving learning, respecting teachers, and valuing talentare profound human values ​​of our nation; are an important factor in creating Vietnamese intelligence, Vietnamese ethics, Vietnamese culture and people. Each of us remembers the folk songs and proverbs about respect and gratitude to teachers: "My child, remember this - Don't forget your father's grace, mother's kindness, and teacher's work."; "A treasure trove of gold is not worth a bag of letters".

President Ho Chi Minh - "The great educator" who gave birth and laid the foundation for the new Vietnamese education system always paid attention to building and developing the country's education system. He pointed out that ignorance is one of the three enemies.,and affirmed: "An ignorant nation is a weak nation.".

During the fierce and arduous war years, but with the spirit of "Where there are people, there are classrooms", "Where there is liberation, education develops there.", revolutionary teachers with passion and responsibility have overcome many hardships and dangers to build schools, open classes, and care for the cause of educating people. In the process of innovation, determining education and training as the top national policy, our Party and State always pay special attention, promulgate and implement many policies and laws and have achieved important results in thinking, awareness, approach and implementation; in mechanisms and policies for training human resources, contributing to building and protecting the Fatherland.

The quality of general education in our country in recent years has been recognized and highly appreciated internationally. Vietnamese students have won many high prizes at international Olympic competitions. University management and administration have been innovated, university autonomy has been promoted, a number of Vietnamese schools are ranked in the top 500 best universities in Asia and the top 1,000 best schools in the world. Vocational education has been increasingly developed in terms of scale, quantity and quality, for many consecutive years Vietnam has been in the TOP 3 countries with the highest achievements in the ASEAN Vocational Skills Competition.

Over the past two years, despite being heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, many flexible and creative teaching models and methods, especially online teaching, have been deployed in the spirit of "stop going to school, not stop learning"; successfully organized high school graduation exams, university and college admissions, recognized by the people and highly appreciated by society.

The 40th anniversary of Vietnam Teachers' Day is an opportunity for us to express our gratitude to more than 1.6 million teachers across the country and to countless generations of teachers who have silently and persistently devoted themselves to the cause of educating future generations. Many teachers have overcome difficulties and become shining examples of morality, dedication, sacrifice, and passion for their profession; some have devoted their youth, becoming second fathers and mothers to their students.

On behalf of the Party and State leaders and with my personal feelings, I would like to once again express my deep respect and gratitude to generations of teachers across the country, those who have shouldered the noble and glorious cause of educating people.

Prime Minister: Developing education and training means improving people's knowledge, training human resources, and nurturing talents. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Dear comrades and teachers!

We are living in the era of globalization, deep international integration and the Fourth Industrial Revolution with many opportunities, but also posing many new difficulties and challenges. Our education and training career has achieved many important achievements but there are still many shortcomings and limitations that need to be overcome soon.

The 13th National Party Congress determined: "Create breakthroughs in fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training, develop high-quality human resources, attract and utilize talents..."; "Continue to synchronously innovate goals, contents, programs, methods, and approaches to education and training in the direction of modernity and international integration..."; "Combining knowledge, ethics, aesthetics, and life skills education with physical education to improve the stature of Vietnamese people.".

To achieve these goals, it is necessary to clearly define that education and training is the cause of the Party, the State and the entire people. Developing education and training is to improve people's knowledge, train human resources and nurture talents. Education and training must be linked to the needs of socio-economic development and national defense; with scientific and technological progress; in accordance with objective laws. I would like to share and note some of the following contents:

For the teaching staff

- President Ho Chi Minh once said: "Good or bad students depend on good or bad teachers.". Every teacher must consider the educational mission as noble, put all their heart, conscience, deep understanding and responsibility into their work with the consistent motto ofstudent-centered, school-based, teachers-motivated; be an inspirational, patriotic person; accept differences, respect diversity, maximize the strengths and talents of each student, all for beloved students, for the noble cause of education of the country.

- I hope that teachers always uphold the awareness of cultivating morality - cultivating talent, loving the profession - loving people; constantly studying, cultivating, accumulating knowledge, experience, improving professional qualifications; being dynamic, creative, flexible, having new approaches in teaching and learning; actively applying science and technology, bringing vitality, new breeze with high persuasiveness in each lecture, thereby contributing to nurturing the future generation of the country to be both red and professional with the spirit that the more we love people, the more we love our profession.

- Promote the construction and effective implementation of the model "Safe - Friendly - Equal School", movement"Friendly school, active students", strengthening the close relationship between teachers, teachers and students, and parents. Teachers must be shining examples for students in love, sharing and responsibility; in research, innovation and creativity; in the desire to contribute and overcome difficulties; in ethics, style, lifestyle, humanity, compassion, solidarity, discipline...

- Besides, teachers must be like second fathers and mothers, constantly caring about the psychology, physiology, and legitimate aspirations of the children; inspiring, cultivating, fostering, and transmitting to the young generation ideals, ethics, values ​​of truth, goodness, beauty, and the quintessence of national and human culture, contributing to the formation of good qualities of Vietnamese people and creative abilities of students in accordance with the development of the country and social progress in the new conditions.

For parents and students

We all want to express our deepest gratitude and appreciation to our teachers. Since ancient times, our ancestors have said: "If you want to cross the bridge, you must build it - If you want your children to be good at reading, you must love their teachers."to remind us to always respect, care, share, and accompany teachers; at the same time, closely coordinate with the school to teach children to become good children, good students, and good citizens of society. For students, I hope that they understand the feelings, sacrifices, hardships, and dedication of teachers to try harder in studying, cultivating virtue, practicing talent, and improving knowledge to bring joy, pride, and happiness to teachers.

For ministries, branches, agencies and localities

- Continue to proactively grasp and effectively implement the Party and State's policies and guidelines on education and training development, especially Resolution No. 29 on fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training through specific, practical and effective action plans and programs.

- Issue and effectively implement the Education Development Strategy for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2045, towards building an open education system, lifelong learning, fairness and equality, standardization, modernization, socialization and international integration; maximize the capacity, qualities and creativity of each individual, and comprehensively develop Vietnamese people.

- Effectively implement the Vocational Education Development Strategy for the 2021-2030 period; develop vocational education in an open, flexible, modern, effective, and integrated direction; focus on the scale, structure, and quality of training; closely follow the needs of the labor market associated with employment, social security, and sustainable, inclusive development; promote start-ups and innovation.

- Review and improve mechanisms and policies related to the teaching staffin accordance with practice,commensurate with the specific work of teachers. CareTake the best care of both material and spiritual needs, especially for preschool teachers, teachers in remote, isolated, and especially disadvantaged areas, teachers teaching special, arduous, and toxic professions, etc., so that the teaching staff can work with peace of mind and dedication.The Government has assigned the Ministry of Education and Training to urgently review and amend regulations on preferential allowances for teachers in accordance with the spirit of the country and in balance with other professions.

- Focus on training, fostering and improving the quality of teachers and educators who are leading experts in universities, research institutes and educational managers, considering this an important and priority task in the coming time.Early effective solutions to solve the problem of teacher shortage, especially preschool teachers.Recruiting sufficient quantity, structure and quality of teaching staff. Building policies to attract talented people to study pedagogy.

- Perfecting mechanisms and policies, implementing educational autonomy according to the roadmap but still ensuring that everyone has the right to access the country's excellent education, creating motivation for teachers and educational managers to actively innovate and create. Strengthening international integration and digital transformation in the field of education and training.

-Implement school management in a modern and smart direction.Promoting democracy, role and responsibility of teachers in constructionand school development.Pay attention to security and safety,building a cultural environment,preventing school violence.

- Ministries, departments, branches, Party committees and local authorities continue to pay deep attention and provide more effective and practical support to the education sector. Focus and mobilize investment resources, ensure school facilities and the best conditions for teaching and learning, and solve the shortage of schools, especially in industrial zones and large cities, remote areas, border and island areas, and disadvantaged areas.

Dear comrades and teachers!

Today, we all want to give our love, gratitude, wishes, smiles, and beautiful flowers to all teachers in every corner of the country. Teachers have been, are, and will always be role models, sowers, caregivers, and nurturers of the seeds of the soul, so that the seeds of morality, personality, knowledge, kindness, etc. will always shine, so that society will become better and better, and Vietnam will become a better country.Stand shoulder to shoulder with the world powers" as wished by President Ho Chi Minh.

In the new development stage of the country, I believe that with greater efforts, higher determination, more enthusiasm, more solidarity and responsibility, the team of teachers will overcome all difficulties and challenges, strive to become good teachers, truly be role models for learners, so that the teaching profession is always honored, as the late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong assessed, as the noblest of noble professions, the most creative of creative professions, contributing importantly with the people of the whole country to build a strong, prosperous Vietnam, happy and prosperous people, for the goal of a rich people, a strong country, a fair, democratic and civilized society.

Wishing you and all teachers good health, happiness and success.

Thank you very much!

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