Former General Secretary Do Muoi: To reform education, we must take care of training and fostering teachers.

Here, the late General Secretary Do Muoi gave a speech: "People's teachers and excellent teachers stand at the forefront of the cause of educational innovation". Here is a brief excerpt.

On the occasion of meeting with comrades - People's Teachers and Excellent Teachers, the late General Secretary Do Muoi especially wanted to talk about the strategy of training teachers. For a long time, we have taken pedagogical reform lightly, which is not right. We must immediately correct this mistake.

Late General Secretary Do Muoi. Photo: VNA

According to the late General Secretary Do Muoi, to reform education, we must take care of training and fostering teachers, and put pedagogical reform one step ahead of educational reform.

The quality of educational reform depends greatly on the quality of pedagogical reform. In the near future, we must find effective solutions to save the lives of teachers, but do not forget to combat the aging of the current teaching staff, while at the same time taking care of the quality and effectiveness of training new teachers.

"For many years, we have neglected investment in education, and therefore neglected investment in teacher training. The State will recalculate the investment rate for human resource training, creating relatively reasonable material and technical conditions compared to the State's orders for education.

However, because of extreme poverty, the State requires the education sector to quickly research and experiment with forms of socializing a part of education to avoid overloading the State budget, which is facing many difficulties at the moment" - the late General Secretary Do Muoi emphasized and hoped that the People's Teachers and Excellent Teachers would do a better job of educating the younger generation.

"On this occasion, on behalf of the State, I entrust you with the responsibility of training and fostering a team of young teachers capable of implementing educational reform, always standing at the forefront of innovation in the educational cause.

Although your work is not "bronze statues and stone stele" as beloved Uncle Ho assessed, it is extremely important and glorious because it is associated with the nation's hundred-year-old interests. I wish you comrades to always maintain the noble title that the State has bestowed upon you" - late General Secretary Do Muoi advised.

The article is excerpted from the speech of the late General Secretary Do Muoi at the meeting with People's Teachers and Meritorious Teachers on November 20, 1988.