By eliminating ignorance, the Party has awakened national pride and self-respect.

With the view that national liberation is always linked to human liberation, in the process of leading the revolution, our Party and Uncle Ho during his lifetime always paid attention to education and training (hereinafter abbreviated as education).

Immediately after the success of the August Revolution in 1945, amidst countless difficulties, internal and external enemies, the Communist Party of Vietnam, headed by President Ho Chi Minh, considered the situation of over 90% of the population being illiterate as an enemy.

In the first meeting of the Provisional Government on September 3, 1945, he raised six urgent issues, of which famine relief was the top urgent task and the task of fighting illiteracy was ranked second.

On September 8, 1945 (just 6 days after declaring independence), the Provisional Government headed by President Ho Chi Minh issued a Decree to establish the Popular Education Department, organizing evening popular education classes for farmers and workers.

Compulsory, free national language learning program for all illiterate people.

Set a goal that within one year, all Vietnamese people over 8 years old must be able to read and write in the national language.

Uncle Ho's call for the movement to "eliminate illiteracy" awakened the self-respect of each citizen and national pride.

From there, not only did it create a learning competition movement among the entire population, but it also promoted the role of intellectuals, those who could read and write fluently, and those who were well-off in participating in the fight against "illiteracy".

People with spacious houses opened classes at home for their neighbors. Many monks and priests lent their pagodas and churches to use as classrooms; they used doors and mats spread on the floor for students to sit and study...

After only one year of the Popular Education Movement (from September 8, 1945 to September 8, 1946), 2,520,678 people escaped illiteracy (Vietnam's population at that time was about 22 million people).

To improve the intellectual level and knowledge of cadres at all levels, in order to meet the requirements of the resistance war against France and the task of nation building, in 1950, in the context of the extremely fierce resistance war against France, the Party and Uncle Ho directed the first educational reform.

To train human resources to meet the tasks of national liberation, building and defending the Fatherland, and at the same time to gradually integrate with international education, the Party focused on building and developing national education through the Second Education Reform in 1956.

After the country's reunification, the 4th Party Congress (1976) determined:

“... Carry out educational reform nationwide; develop general education; arrange, gradually expand and complete the network of universities, colleges and vocational high schools; widely develop vocational schools”.

To concretize the implementation of the Resolution of the 4th Congress, on January 11, 1979, the Politburo issued Resolution No. 14-NQ/TW "on education reform" (Third education reform).

Through three educational reforms, although there were still limitations due to historical conditions and circumstances, especially being dominated by the Soviet Union's educational model (formerly), it created an important development step for Vietnamese education in the pre-renovation period (before 1986).

Entering the period of innovation, education has always been one of the important contents in the documents of Party congresses.

In which, Resolution No. 04-NQ/HNTW "On continuing to innovate the education and training career" not only points out urgent solutions to handle burning issues in education but also sets out strategic directions for the development of education career according to the platform and strategy of our Party until after 2000...

During 80 years of revolutionary leadership, depending on each historical situation, the content of the instructions may be different, but in terms of viewpoint, the Party always emphasizes the role of education in improving people's knowledge, developing human resources, and nurturing talents to serve the cause of national revival, construction, and development.

In order for the Party's goal of developing education to become a reality, all levels and sectors, especially state management agencies on education and training, need to firmly grasp the Party's viewpoints and goals, and on that basis propose policies and solutions that are close to the current situation of the country's education and the needs of society, focusing on the following issues:

The first: Management agencies need to abandon the "hand-holding" style of directing training institutions and boldly give them autonomy in all aspects.

Monday: For learners, Resolution 8 of the Central Committee (Session XI) has clearly stated: "Strongly shifting the educational process from mainly equipping knowledge to comprehensively developing learners' capacity and qualities", for the teaching staff, creativity in conveying content, especially teaching methods, is also needed.

Tuesday: Based on the viewpoint of Resolution 8 of the Central Committee: "Developing education and training must be associated with the needs of socio-economic development and national defense with scientific and technological progress in accordance with objective laws", it is necessary to strongly and drastically innovate the content of training programs to link human resource training to social needs.

Wednesday: Boldly integrate and absorb the content and training programs of countries with developed education systems to take advantage of the advantages of being a latecomer in developing education and training.