'National revival from educational revival'

Commenting on the draft documents of the 13th National Party Congress organized by the Science Council of the Central Party agencies, Professor Hoang Chi Bao highly appreciated the fact that the draft documents focused on comprehensive education at all levels and fields of study in the national education system. In the development orientation and tasks and goals, university education was mentioned, even emphasizing "especially university education and vocational colleges" to focus on student streaming right from the end of junior high school.

Professor, Dr. Hoang Chi Bao.

Professor Hoang Chi Bao emphasized that, but according to him, it is still necessary to clarify the issue of university education because the appearance of a country and a nation that wants high-quality human resources is in the university training area, which provides the highest human resources.

Professor Bao believes that the new educational content only emphasizes one aspect of university training, which is to focus on improving the quality of national high school graduation, ensuring the quality of university input to have good quality. That is not enough, the necessary and sufficient condition is the quality of university education, which must closely link teaching with scientific research.

According to Professor Hoang Chi Bao, our university lecturers currently do very little scientific research, so their teaching is not at the level of scientists. They only repeat textbooks and curricula, so how can we have the prestigious, international-class universities we desire?

In the cultural field, through studying the draft document, Professor Hoang Chi Bao found very new ideas: "Building a national value system", "building a cultural value system", "human standards", "maintaining and promoting the Vietnamese family value system from tradition to modernity".

Emphasizing that these are very necessary, very new ideas that need to be affirmed, especially the "national value system", Professor Hoang Chi Bao raised the question of whether that value system is independence, freedom, happiness; is the Fatherland above all?

Or the system of cultural values, the previous Party resolution stated 4 characteristics of Vietnamese culture: nation, humanity, democracy, science, but these 4 characteristics are not identical with the system of cultural values, we must start from here to study the system of cultural values. That system of cultural values ​​also does not stop at the general general truth, goodness and beauty like all cultures have, it must carry the Vietnamese identity and Vietnamese historical traditions. From the system of national standards to determining the characteristics of culture, now we need to continue to specify more toestablish a system of cultural valuesVietnam, in which human values ​​and human standards are the center and core, will create development. Only then can we consider culture as endogenous, as a driving force for development, not just playing a fundamental role, but truly as a social capital that promotes economic, political and social development.

Also a cultural issue, the draft document's argument that "finding solutions to break through and prevent serious degradation and decline in ethics and lifestyle" is very correct, according to Professor Bao, but must be raised to a higher level. What must be done to achieve efforts to revive ethics in the face of serious degradation? Using education to revive ethics, thereby reviving the Vietnamese nation, in order to achieve sustainable aspirations, only then will it be in line with the Congress Resolution's guidelines for 5 and 10 years associated with the development strategy./.